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| Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Double-barred Finch* |
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Taeniopygia bichenovii |
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Description (10)
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Double-barred Finch
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Other Names (World)
Double-barred Finch, Double-banded Finch, Black-rumped Finch, Double-bar Finch, Banded Finch, Bicheno Finch, Black-ringed Finch (annulosa), Double-barrelled Finch, Double-bearded Finch, Owl Finch, Owl-faced Finch, Ringed Finch, Double-bar, Black-rumped Double-bar
Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)
Size
10 - 11 cm
First Described (Guide)
(Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)
Derivation
Tae-ni-o-pyg'-i-ä - Gk, taenios, ?; Gk, pyge, rump, tail: bichenovii - J.E. Bicheno (1785 - 1851), naturalist and official, Tasmania
Habitat
Dry grass woodlands, open forests, farmlands, bordering watercourses.
Australia (B).
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Habits
In pairs or flocks.
Food
Seeds.
Voice
A brassy, drawn out 'tzeeaat, tzeeaat' in contact. A 'tat, tat' in close contact.
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Nest
Bottle-shaped, composed of dry grass, lined with finer materials, in a grass tussock or a small bush, sometimes near a wasp nest.
Eggs (Guide)
Usually 4 or 5; plain white; oval; about 16 x 11 mm. Incubation: about 12 - 14 days; by both sexes.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 19 - 21 days.
Subspecies
Genus sometimes subsumed in Poephila. This species has sometimes been separated in a monotypic genus, Stizoptera. Subspecies intergrade in region south of Gulf of Carpenteria, from where most museum specimens are either white-rumped or black-rumped; in breeding experiments with captives, mixed pairs of black-rumped subspecies annulosa and white-rumped nominate produced white-rumped offspring, suggesting a single genetic locus with white dominant over black.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
- bichenovii (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) - Eastern Australia from northern Cape York Peninsula, Qld south to east Gippsland and the western slopes of Snowy Mts in Vic. and New South Wales, extending west to south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria and middle reaches of Barcoo - Upper Diamantina River Drainage Basin in Qld, and mid-Darling River Drainage Basin and western Riverina in New South Wales.
- annulosa (Gould, 1840) - Coastal and subcoastal north-western and northern Australia from Dampier Land, WA east to Calvert River in southern Gulf of Carpentaria and extending south to the upper Fitzroy, Ord and Victoria River Drainage Basins in WA and NT and northern Barkly Tableland, NT.
References
See References.
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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