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Red Wattlebird
Photograph copyright: Nickolay Tilcheff - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
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RED WATTLEBIRD FACTS |
Description
The Red Wattlebird is a large greyish-brown honeyeater with reddish-brown eye. It has a red wattle on each side of the neck. It has white streaks on the chest and belly. The long tail has a white tip. Young Red Wattlebirds are plainer with less prominent wattles and have brown eyes.
Other Names
Barkingbird, Gillbird
Size
35cm
Habitat
forests, woodlands and gardens
Food
nectar, berries and insects.
Breeding
The nest is a saucer of sticks and leaves lined with bark and hair. It is built 2-16m above ground, usually in the fork of shrub branch. Lays 2-3 pale pink eggs spotted with brown.
Range
from South-East Queensland through New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Meliphagidae | | Genus: | Anthochaera | | Species: | carunculata | | Common Name: | Red Wattlebird |
Relatives in same Genus
Little Wattlebird (A. chrysoptera)
Western Wattlebird (A. lunulata)
Yellow Wattlebird (A. paradoxa)
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