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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Forty-spotted Pardalote is a dull olive-green above and greyish-white below. The face is yellowish and the rump is also olive-green with no red. Wings are dark with dull white spots.
An olive-green pardalote endemic to Tasmania where it is very localised. Forty-spotted Pardalotes feed on insects and manna from eucalypts, mostly foraging in the tree canopy. They build a domed or cup-shaped nest in a hollow. Nests are sometimes lined with feathers, fur, leaves or wool. Four eggs are laid and both parents feed the young.
Author credit: Kathryn Medlock / Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Habitat
Restricted to small areas of white gum (E. viminalis) forest in low coastal areas, especially Bruny and Maria Islands.
Food
Omnivore
Range
Tasmania
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: | Pardalotidae | | Genus: | Pardalotus | | Species: | quadragintus | | Common Name: | Forty-spotted Pardalote |
Relatives in same Genus
Spotted Pardalote (P. punctatus)
Red-browed Pardalote (P. rubricatus)
Striated Pardalote (P. striatus)
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