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SPOTTED PARDALOTE FACTS |
Description
The head, wings and tail of the Spotted Pardalote are black with small white spots. The face and neck are grey and the eyebrow is white. Males have a yellow throat. Females are similar but have less distinct spots and a white throat.
Size
9cm
Habitat
forest, woodland, parks and gardens
Food
psyllids and other insects, also sugary sap from leaves and psyllids
Breeding
The Spotted Pardalote nests in tunnel in earth bank or sometimes in a tree hollow. A clutch of four eggs is laid.
Range
The Spotted Pardalote is found in eastern and southern Australia from north Queensland through to Perth in Western 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: | Pardalotidae | | Genus: | Pardalotus | | Species: | punctatus | | Common Name: | Spotted Pardalote |
Relatives in same Genus
Forty-spotted Pardalote (P. quadragintus)
Red-browed Pardalote (P. rubricatus)
Striated Pardalote (P. striatus)
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