Female © Leigh Pieterse
Juvenile © Chris Wiley
Male © shorty w
Male © Ken Crawley
+ 2
Female © Andrew Allen

Flame Robin Petroica phoenicea

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Identification

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Large Australian robin. Male slaty gray above, with gray head and chin and small white spot above the bill. Breast and belly a bright orange-red. Black upperwing shows extensive white panels. Female brown above, paler brown below; darker wing with pale panels. In Tasmania, similar female Dusky Robin lacks pale wing panels. Forages in small flocks on the ground in farmland, grasslands, parks, and other open habitats in southeastern Australia and Tasmania.

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