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Red-browed Firetail Finch

Neochmia temporalis

Photo by Leuba Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

A small olive-grey finch bird about 110 mm long with a red bill, strikingly scarlet brow and rump. On the shoulders is a golden-olive mark and the tail is black.

Habitat:

Usually spotted in undergrowth and margins of forests, woodlands, coastal scrub and heath. Also seen in cultivated lands.
This bird was spotted on tea-trees (Leptospermum) bordering a reserve and water course.

Notes:

A large flock of these were flying between eucalyptus trees into the leptospermum. Their scarlet heads and rump stood out as they flew. very restless birds, much like the little wrens.

Also called Emblema temporalis

Reference Links:

Red-browed Finch, Australian Red-browed Firetail Finch - Aegintha temporalis

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Comments (4)
StephenSolomons
Gone forever as things stand. I remember thousands of them around the creeks but every second house has a cat since then
Leuba Ridgway
That's sad. Gone for the season or forever ? - I hope it's not the latter. We do need to conserve continous tracts of native trees, it seems - that's where I see /hear most of these little ones. These finches are not seen around our place so I was really excited when this flash of red flew past me at a reserve nearby- to get a photo after, that was a bonus !
StephenSolomons
One of my favourite birds, almost all the small birds are gone from here

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PublishedApril 20, 2013

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