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RED-BROWED FINCH FACTS |
Description
The Red-browed Finch is a green and grey bird with bright red eyebrow, rump and beak.
Size
11cm
Habitat
grassy areas next to dense vegetation, often along creeks.
Food
seeds and insects
Breeding
The nest is domed with a side tunnel entrance. It is made of twigs and grass stems built in a dense shrub 1-2m from the ground. It lays 4-5 eggs.
Range
east of the Great Dividing Range from Cape York in Queensland to South Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Estrildidae | | Genus: | Neochmia | | Species: | temporalis | | Common Name: | Red-browed Finch |
Relatives in same Genus
Plum-headed Finch (N. modesta)
Crimson Finch (N. phaeton)
Star Finch (N. ruficauda)
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