Spinifexbird (Poodytes carteri) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebrates

GrasslandCup nestTiny · 12 g

Spinifexbird (Poodytes carteri), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Nathan Ruser, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Spinifexbird (Poodytes carteri), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Alan Bell, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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It has a rich brown cap, golden brown streaked wings, and a long tail. Both sexes are alike.

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When to see the Spinifexbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Spinifexbird

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Australia

About the Spinifexbird

The spinifexbird is endemic to inland Australia. Also known as Carter's desertbird, it is named after Thomas Carter, an English ornithologist and pastoralist active in Western Australia from 1887 to 1928.

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Easily confused with

Fly River GrassbirdPoodytes albolimbatusThe Fly River grassbird is a species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae.

New Zealand FernbirdPoodytes punctatusThe adult has a brown plumage streaked in black.

Little GrassbirdPoodytes gramineusIt is an olive-brown/ brown-grey bird, measuring 13 to 15 cm, with a pale eyebrow and dark grey streaks in the throat, crown and cheeks.

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