Pardalotes (Pardalotidae)
Forty-spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus) - HBW 13, p. 401
French:
Pardalote de Tasmanie
German: Tasmanpanthervogel
Spanish: Pardalote Tasmano
Other common names: Forty-spotted Diamond-bird,
Many-spotted/Tasmanian Pardalote/Diamond-bird
Taxonomy: Pardalotus
quadragintus Gould, 1838, “Van Diemen’s Land” =
Tasmania.
Most
closely related to P. punctatus.
Single specimen from King I (W Bass Strait) named as a geographical
race rex,
but indistinguishable from birds elsewhere in range. Monotypic.
Distribution: E Bass Strait (Flinders I) and SE Tasmania, including some offshore islands (Schouten, Maria, Bruny).
- Endangered Enlarge map
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feeding in tree top, flies; at Bruny Island Main Road, near Dennes Point. Locality Dennes Point, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 23 January 2012 17 weeks ago 17 sec 2.6 -
quarter speed shimmying along branch; at Bruny Island Main Road, near Dennes Point. Locality Dennes Point, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 23 January 2012 17 weeks ago 11 sec 2.6 -
feeding in canopy, flies; at Bruny Island Main Road, near Dennes Point. Locality Dennes Point, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 23 January 2012 17 weeks ago 24 sec 2.4 -
in canopy, flies - at quarter speed; at Bruny Island Main Road, near Dennes Point. Locality Dennes Point, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 23 January 2012 17 weeks ago 18 sec 2.3
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Foraging
Locality Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 6 February 2007 1 year ago 3.2 -
A bird (hyper)actively foraging in a bush
Locality Peter Murrell Reserve, Tasmania, Australia
Robert Wynands 25 December 2008 2 years ago 1.3
- No sound recordings available yet
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