Description
The Beautiful Firetail is a small tubby bird with a scarlet beak and rump. It has a black mask and pale blue eye-ring. The upper parts are a dark grey-brown finely barred with black and white. Under parts are lighter and also barred black and white. The belly is black and the legs and feet are pink.
The Beautiful Firetail's nest is a bottle-shaped structure built with an entrance spout in the foliage of a dense shrub that leads to a round egg chamber. Both sexes share nest building, incubation and feeding the young.
Author credit: Belinda Bauer / Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Habitat
Coastal heathland, forests and shrubbery, never far from water.
Food
Omnivore
Range
Tasmania and southern Australia.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Estrildidae | | Genus: | Stagonopleura | | Species: | bella | | Common Name: | Beautiful Firetail |
Relatives in same Genus
Diamond Firetail (S. guttata)
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