Diamond Firetail
Stagonopleura guttata
Mt Korong Conservation Reserve, Glenalbyn, NC Vic IMG_9144 20210416 - male with display feather.
Notes: Prominent white spots on black flanks; scarlet
rump; black breast-band, tail; mostly grey
hood, red bill. Juvenile
a pale ghost of adult; grey-black bill. In grassy ground-cover under open
drier forest; woodlands near watercourses, roadsides. Forages
exclusively on the ground.
Uncommon.
Range from Morcombe©
Bennets Rock, Terrick Terrick NP, NC Vic IMG_5595 20200121
West Loop, Mt Korong Conservation Reserve, Glenalbyn, NC Vic IMG_4458 20211102 - male with display grass stem.
West Loop, Mt Korong Conservation Reserve, Glenalbyn, NC Vic IMG_4469 20211102 - male with display grass stem.
Picnic Area, Mt Korong Conservation Reserve, Glenalbyn, NC Vic IMG_4036 20211101
Capertee NP, CE NSW IMG_6366 20151124
West Loop, Mt Korong Conservation Reserve, Glenalbyn, NC Vic IMG_4468 20211102 - male with display grass stem.
Mt Korong Conservation Reserve, Glenalbyn, NC Vic IMG_9146 20210416 - male with display feather.