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  Forty-spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus)





Forty-spotted Pardalote | Pardalotus quadragintus photo
Forty-spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus), ,Maria Island, off the coast of Tasmania.

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BIRD FACTS

Description
The Forty-spotted Pardalote is a dull olive-green above and greyish-white below. The face is yellowish and the rump is also olive-green with no red. Wings are dark with dull white spots.

An olive-green pardalote endemic to Tasmania where it is very localised. Forty-spotted Pardalotes feed on insects and manna from eucalypts, mostly foraging in the tree canopy. They build a domed or cup-shaped nest in a hollow. Nests are sometimes lined with feathers, fur, leaves or wool. Four eggs are laid and both parents feed the young.

Author credit: Kathryn Medlock / Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

Habitat
Restricted to small areas of white gum (E. viminalis) forest in low coastal areas, especially Bruny and Maria Islands.

Food
Omnivore

Range
Tasmania

distribution map showing range of Pardalotus quadragintus in Australia

Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.


Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.




Classification
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Pardalotidae
Genus:Pardalotus
Species:quadragintus
Common Name:Forty-spotted Pardalote

Relatives in same Genus
  Spotted Pardalote (P. punctatus)
  Red-browed Pardalote (P. rubricatus)
  Striated Pardalote (P. striatus)