Description
Body green-grey with a yellow throat. Top of head black with white streaks. White stripe above the eye; yellow spot in front of the eye. Wings black with a white edge and a red or yellow spot. Body up to 12 cm long.
Striated Pardalotes feed on insects and insect larvae in eucalypt trees. They nest in holes in the ground or tree hollows. Their call is a loud 'chip-chip-chip'.
Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria
Habitat
Parks and gardens.
Food
Insects
Range
Mainland Australia and Tasmania.
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: | striatus | | Common Name: | Striated Pardalote |
Relatives in same Genus
Spotted Pardalote (P. punctatus)
Forty-spotted Pardalote (P. quadragintus)
Red-browed Pardalote (P. rubricatus)
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