| Beautiful Firetail Stagonopleura bella |
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Australia February / March 2006 The Beautiful Firetail is distributed from the Great Dividing Range to the coast in south-east Australia and in Tasmania. It is found in dense vegetation in coastal heathlands, forest and woodland where it tends to be solitary. |
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This attractive little finch has a red bill, a black mask and a pale eye-ring. The rump is bright red and the underparts, back and wings are finely barred. The immature, seen here in photos 2 and 3, is duller with a dark bill. | |||
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