Red-eared Firetail

Emu Beach, Albany, SW WA IMG_0874 20181101 - male, displaying or collecting materials for a nest.

Notes: Like Beautiful Firetail w. red ear-patch & bold white spots below, absent in juvenile.
Thick black lores, red bill. Scarlet rump. Male displays by bobbing w. long grass stem held
by end in bill. Sedentary. Voice: drawn-out wheezing. In dense riparian vegetation in
eucalypt woodland.

Range from Pizzey & Knight^©

Nannup, SW WA IMG_8636 20181022

Nannup, SW WA IMG_8639 20181022

Emu Beach, Albany, SW WA IMG_0867 20181101 - male, displaying or collecting materials for a nest.

Nannup, SW WA IMG_8634 20181022

Nannup, SW WA IMG_8641 20181022

Nannup, SW WA MVI_8644 20181022