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Dissection of a disused Striated Pardalote nest (Pardalotus striatus) Alternate name(s): "Striated Diamond-bird", "Pickwick", "Wittachew", "Chip-chip"; race "striatus": "Yellow-tipped Pardalote"; races "ornatus", "substriatus", "uropygialis": "Red-tipped Pardalote"; race "melanocephalus": "Black-headed Pardalote" Aboriginal name(s): Race "substriatus": "bilyabit"*, "widopwidop"* (WA) Size: 8-12 cm; wing span: 16-20 cm Body mass: 6.5-17 g Wing loading [g/cm2]: 0.16-0.22

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Striated Pardalotes have a strong preference for nests with a long entrance tunnel, be it a hollow branch, a bottle-shaped mud nest built by another species, a tunnel they dig into a steep bank, a drain pipe or similar. In the case described here, they decided to build a tunnel by digging into a side wall of a shallow trench that had been left open for a while.

View from above showing how a spade was used to excavate a Striated Pardalote nest tunnel after the birds were finished and work on the ditch was resumed (photo courtesy of L. Tonnochy)
[Near Townsville, QLD, September 2016]

View of the Striated Pardalote nest at the end of the tunnel (photo courtesy of L. Tonnochy)
[Near Townsville, QLD, September 2016]

Striated Pardalote nest after removal from the nest chamber at the end of the tunnel - note that is was not domed (photo courtesy of L. Tonnochy)
[Near Townsville, QLD, September 2016]

Overview of the excavation area of a Striated Pardalote nest, giving an impression of the length of the tunnel and of the shallowness of the trench (photo courtesy of L. Tonnochy)
[Near Townsville, QLD, September 2016]

Close-up view of the Striated Pardalote nest, with a smart phone for comparison (photo courtesy of L. Tonnochy)
[Near Townsville, QLD, September 2016]

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