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PINK ROBIN FACTS |
Description
The male is sooty-black on his back and top of chest, with a bright pink belly, a small white patch on his head and, sometimes, two faint buff wing bars. The female is brown with paler brown underparts, a pale brown spot on her forehead and, sometimes, a pale pink wash on the breast. Juveniles look like females. Body up to 13 cm long.
Pink Robins breed in spring-summer (from September to January) and migrate to drier open habitats in autumn. The female builds a well-camouflaged nest in the fork of a tree: she binds bark strips and green moss with spiders' webs to form a deep cup shape, decorates it with lichen and lines it with soft plants, feathers and fur. She incubates the 3-4 eggs on her own, but both parents feed the chicks. The Pink Robin is a predator, catching insects and spiders while foraging on the ground.
Author credit: Nicole Kearney / Museum Victoria
Habitat
Rainforest, tall open eucalypt forest and densely-vegetated gullies.
Food
Carnivore
Range
South-eastern mainland Australia and 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: | Petroicidae | | Genus: | Petroica | | Species: | rodinogaster | | Common Name: | Pink Robin |
Relatives in same Genus
Scarlet Robin (P. boodang)
Red-capped Robin (P. goodenovii)
Flame Robin (P. phoenicea)
Rose Robin (P. rosea)
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