General Description
The Beautiful Firetail is a small tubby bird with a scarlet beak and rump. It has a black mask and pale blue eye-ring. The upper parts are a dark grey-brown finely barred with black and white. Under parts are lighter and also barred black and white. The belly is black and the legs and feet are pink. To 12.5 cm.
Biology
The Beautiful Firetail's nest is a bottle-shaped structure built with an entrance spout in the foliage of a dense shrub that leads to a round egg chamber. Both sexes share nest building, incubation and feeding the young.
Distribution
Tasmania and southern Australia.
Habitat
Coastal heathland, forests and shrubbery, never far from water.
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Brief Id
Small tubby bird with a scarlet beak and rump. Black eyemask. Finely barred black and white.
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Colours
Grey-brown, Red, Black
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Maximum Size
12.5 cm
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Diet
Omnivore
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Commercial
No
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Conservation Statuses
CITES: Trade restrictions (Appendix II), FFG Threatened List: Endangered, EPBC Act 1999: Not listed, IUCN Red List: Least Concern
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Common Name
Beautiful Firetail
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