Red-browed Pardalote (Pardalotus rubricatus) [XC744046]
by id from Yarraden, Cook Shire, Queensland, Australia (call, song)
Red-browed Pardalote (Pardalotus rubricatus) [XC181330]
by Marc Anderson from near Desert Park entrance, Northern Territory, Australia (call)
Nest
Cup-shaped, composed of fine strips of bark at the end of a tunnel in a bank.
Eggs (Guide)
3, 4 or sometimes 2; white; rounded-oval; about 19 x 15 mm. Incubation: mainly by female.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous.
Subspecies
Subspecies intergrade in north-western Queensland. Other proposed subspecies are parryi (northern Western Australia), which is merged with nominate, and carpentariae (subhumid zone of north-western Queensland), merged with yorki.
Subspecies yorki intergrades with subspecies rubricatus through base of Gulf of Carpentaria Drainage. Identity of the central coastal Qld species unresolved, possibly differentiated.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
rubricatus Gould, 1838 - Northern Australia excluding Cape Yorke Peninsula, from southern and eastern Kimberley Divide, southern Arnhem Land, Barkly Tableland and south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria Draingae, east as far as western watershed of Great Dividing Range, and extending south to Pilbara Divide, central Australian Ranges, Lake Eyre Basin and north-western NSW.
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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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