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Red-browed Pardalote (Pardalotus rubricatus) Alternate name(s): "Red-browed Diamondbird", "Bellbird*", "Cape Red-browed Pardalote", "Pale Red-browed Pardalote", "Fawn-eyed Pardalote", "Fawn-eyebrowed Pardalote", "Pallid Pardalote", "Red-lored Pardalote" Size: 10-11 cm; wing span 12 cm Weight: 11 g (race "rubricatus"); 9 g (race "yorki")

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Physical description Click here for a physical description Although Red-browed Pardalotes are very small bushland birds, they are in fact the largest of the four species of Australian Pardalotes. Their crown is black with prominent white spots. They have yellow-orange supercilia with name-giving red spots in front of the eyes. The entire front is fawn to light-grey, sometimes with a small yellow chest patch. The back, from the mantle to the uppertail coverts, is orange-brown. The wing feathers are mostly dark-grey with prominent, broad off-white edge lining and a similarly prominent orange-buff wing spot. The uppertail is dark-grey with a white terminal band. Their irises are pale-yellow. The legs and feet are grey. The strong, straight bill has a dark upper mandible and an horn-coloured lower mandible. Birds in the Lake Eyre Basin tend to be paler than Red-browed Pardalotes elsewhere, while race "yorki" are more colourful than Red-browed Pardalotes elsewhere.

Taxonomy, classification See Red-browed Pardalote at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species Click here for information on habitat and range The overall distribution of this species can be assessed based on sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org . The global distribution of the Red-browed Pardalote is available HERE . Red-browed Pardalotes are endemic to the Australian continent. With some small deviations, they are found in the northern two-thirds of the continent. There are two races, of which race "yorki" is found on Cape York peninsula, except the very tip and the south-eastern base of the peninsula, to the North of Cairns. Nominate race "rubricatus" can be found over most of the rest of the northern parts of the continent, approximately to a line connecting Carnarvon, WA, with Broken Hill, NSW, and to a line connecting Broken Hill, NSW, with Yeppoon, QLD. Occasionally they can be found farther to the East in inland NSW, up to about Brewarrina, NSW. Within that general range, they are NOT found in the Top End of the NT, in parts of the Great Sandy Desert and the Gibson Desert, and along the coastal fringe of central QLD. Red-browed Pardalotes have a preference for semi-arid to arid habitats, ranging from inland watercourses to semi-arid woodland and semi-desert mulga scrub.

Sightings Click here for sighting information Race "rubricatus" J. Greaves reports spotting a Red-browed Pardalote, race "rubricatus", at Alyangula, Groote Eylandt, NT, in September 2014. M. Mackay reports spotting Red-browed Pardalotes, race "rubricatus", along the Oodnadatta Road near Coober Pedy, SA, in November 2016. B. Hensen reports finding Red-browed Pardalotes, race "rubricatus", in the township of Alice Springs, NT, in July 2018. A Red-browed Pardalote, race "rubricatus", was found by us at the Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, near Cunnamulla, QLD, in June 2019.

Photos

Race "rubricatus"

ADULT

Sex unknown

Frontal view of a Red-browed Pardalote (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Alice Springs, NT, July 2018]

Frontal/ventral view of a Red-browed Pardalote; this is the bird whose calls were recorded on 18 June 2019
[Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, near Cunnamulla, QLD, June 2019]

Near-frontal view of a Red-browed Pardalote (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Alice Springs, NT, July 2018]

Near-frontal view of a Red-browed Pardalote (photo courtesy of M. Mackay)
[Oodnadatta Road, near Coober Pedy, SA, November 2016]

Near-lateral view of a Red-browed Pardalote (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Alice Springs, NT, July 2018]

Lateral view of a Red-browed Pardalote (photo courtesy of M. Mackay)
[Oodnadatta Road, near Coober Pedy, SA, November 2016]

Lateral view of a Red-browed Pardalote (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Alice Springs, NT, July 2018]

Ventral view of a Red-browed Pardalote; this is the bird whose calls were recorded on 18 June 2019
[Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, near Cunnamulla, QLD, June 2019]

Call(s)/Song

For this species we have recorded the following call(s)/song. The interpretation of their meaning is our own; comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

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