Waxbills (Estrildidae)
Red-eared Firetail (Stagonopleura oculata) - HBW 15, p. 352
French: Diamant oculé
German: Rotohramadine
Spanish: Diamante Orejirrojo
Other common names: Red-eared Finch/Firetail-finch
Taxonomy: Fringilla oculata Quoy and Gaimard, 1830, King George Sound, Western Australia.
Present species and S. bella have sometimes been placed in a separate genus, Zonaeginthus. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW Western Australia from Darling Range S to Manjimup and Pemberton, and E along coast to Cape Le Grand National Park and Israelite Bay.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Adult bird foraging in leaf litter on ground. Locality Pemberton, Western Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Neil Robertson 22 September 2009 2 years ago 38 sec 3.9
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A freshly bathed male.
Locality Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Andrew Shaw 10 March 2010 21 weeks ago 3.5 -
perched in riverside vegetation
Locality Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Mat Gilfedder 24 April 2007 3 years ago 2.7 -
Red-eared Firetail perched in a tree
Locality Wungong Reservoir, Armadale, Western Australia, Australia
Rhonda Hansch 24 September 2010 1 year ago 2.5
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