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Spotted Pardalote
- Pardalotus
punctatus
Occasional visitor.
A very small bird with a black crown spotted with white, white spots
on the wings and tail, white eyebrow, yellow throat and vent. Forages
in the canopy.
Voice: a soft but
penetrating, slow, three-syllable call, 'sleep baby'; sometimes just
the last two syllables or single plaintive note.
Call
1: single note repeated.
Similar species:
Striated Pardalote has a streaked, not spotted crown, a yellow and white
eyebrow, yellow throat and pale vent.
Photographs and sounds courtesy
Merilyn Browne.
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