Pictorella Mannikin
Heteromunia pectoralis
Parry Lagoons Nature Reserve, Wyndham, NE WA IMG_7623 20180815 - 3 x adult + juvenile.
Notes: Silver-grey bill; face, throat black. Male: upper breast
white, forming a breastband,
with some black scallops showing here & there.
Female: black scallops & bars extending
across whole of breastband,
Juvenile: plain, shades of pink-brown, darker bill.
In tall tropical grasslands,
especially spinifex.
Range from Atlas of Living Australia©(April 2018)
Parry Lagoons Nature Reserve, Wyndham, NE WA IMG_7672 20180815 - 3 x adult.
Parry Lagoons Nature Reserve, Wyndham, NE WA IMG_7625 20180815 - adult male.
Parry Lagoons Nature Reserve, Wyndham, NE WA IMG_7695 20180815 - 2 x adult female. CLICK for pic of adult stilldeveloping black mask.
Buchanan HW, NT IMG_5194 20160711 - immature
Racecourse, Georgetown, FN Qld IMG_3881 20200616 - juvenile. CLICK for another pic.
location MVI_6666 20160909