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Rose Robin

Petroica rosea

Photo by AliceGreenup
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Field Notes

Description:

The Rose Robin is a slender robin with a relatively long tail. Males are dark grey above, with a white patch above the bill (frontal patch), and have a rose-pink breast. The lower part of the underbody and outer tail feathers are white, the wings and upper tail dark grey. Females are mainly brown-grey above with a small white frontal patch, white outertail and wing bars, and off-white below, with occasional pale pink wash across breast. Young birds resemble females, but are streaked white above, usually lack the white frontal patch, and are mottled darked brown underneath, with less or no pink.

Habitat:

Spotted in Remnant rainforest patches in my backyard, amongst native trees.

Notes:

This guy was spotted hanging around in the trees near my chicken pen, which sits beside a remnant rainforest patch that has been added to with native trees by my dad. He was very hard to get a good photo of as they're extremely fast & quiet! This guy earned me the PathFinder Patch

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Comments (3)

Thanks Kathleen and luis!! He was pretty elusive so I doubt I'll see him again but he was kind enough to sit still long enough to let me get some shots :)

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