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Striated Pardalote
- Pardalotus
striatus
Resident in small
numbers. A very small, short-tailed bird that forages high in the canopy.
It has a black crown streaked with white, yellow and white eyebrows,
yellow throat, pale underparts and olive back. Nests in tree hollows
or occasionally holes in earth banks.
Voice: loud two-syllable
chip-chip.
Call
1: chip call.
Similar species:
Spotted Pardalote is spotted, not streaked, has all-white eyebrow, has
yellow throat and vent.
Photographs and sounds courtesy
Merilyn Browne.
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