Wattlebird
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see honeyeater.
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Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
Described by: White (1790)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Wattlebird, Red Anthochaera carunculata Found: Australia
Photographed by: 1) Gary Unwin 2) Mick Stephenson in Victoria, Australia
3) Peripitus 4) Brett_Donald 5) Dick Daniels. Identified by Igor Cecar.
Yellow Wattlebird, New Holland Honeyeater, Yellow-rumped Thornbill, Laughing Kookaburra
Forty-spotted Pardalote
A Pardalote is a small bird with a stubby tail. There are four species in Australia, three of which breed at Peter Murrell.
Red Wattlebird skin (ventral view)
Redback Spider
Redback Spider, Latrodectus hasselti
Redback Spiders
Red-bellied Black Snake
Red-bellied Black Snake
Redbreasted Maori Wrasse, Cheilinus fasciatus (Bloch, 1791)
Red-browed Finch Illustration ...
Callaeidae: New Zealand wattlebirds. Tentatively placed here.
Family N.N.: Stitchbird. Tentatively placed here.
Cnemophilidae: satinbirds. Tentatively placed here.
Neosittidae: sittellas
Vireonidae: vireos ...
Only two endemic New Zealand Wattlebirds still exist. Saddleback Creadion carunculatus is doing reasonable well where reintroduced on predator-free offshore islets.
One of these species is the Kokako, belonging, with the extinct Huia and Tieke, the saddleback, to the ancient wattlebird family, Callaeidae.
Family Callaeatidae (wattlebirds, wattled crows)
Family Cinclosomatidae (quail-thrush, whipbird, rail-babblers)
Family Climacteridae (Australian treecreepers) ...
@Clare: I love your sense of wattle competition.. Those Australian wattlebirds are so nice but have such small wattles!
@Corey: There could always be a second chance.. hope to get you back at least to see the great wattle.
Firewood harvesting in Box-Ironbark woodlands can also remove important habitat components.
Competition from larger aggressive honeyeaters, particularly Noisy Miners, Noisy Friarbirds and Red Wattlebirds.
Egg and nest predation by native birds.
finch, saltators & cardinal-grosbeaks, tanagers, swallow tanager, bananaquit, New World warblers, Hawaiian honeycreepers, vireos, New World blackbirds, finches, Estrildid finches, weavers, starlings, Old World orioles, drongos, wattlebirds, ...
 See also: Finch, Robin, Heron, Warbler, Pitta
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