Spotted Pardalote

What the Spotted Pardalote sounds like

Recorded by James Ray · Call · Faulconbridge, Blue Mountains City Council, New South Wales, Australia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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When to see the Spotted Pardalote

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Spotted Pardalote

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

About the Spotted Pardalote

The spotted pardalote is a small passerine bird native to eastern and southern Australia, at elevations of up to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). It is part of the pardalote family, Pardalotidae. One of the smallest of all Australian birds at 8 to 10 centimetres in length, and one of the most colourful; it is sometimes known as the diamondbird. Although moderately common in all of the reasonably fertile parts of Australia it is seldom seen closely enough to enable identification.

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Easily confused with

Striated PardalotePardalotus striatusThe striated pardalote's plumage varies considerably across its range. Red-browed PardalotePardalotus rubricatusAdult red–browed pardalotes are a large pardalote with an average length of 105 mm and wingspan of 60–66 mm. Forty-spotted PardalotePardalotus quadragintusA small, energetic passerine about 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 4 in) long, the forty-spot is similar to the much commoner spotted pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus), but has a dull greenish-brown back and head, compared to the more colourful plumage of the latter, with which it shares its range, and there is no brow line.

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