EUROPEAN GREENFINCH

Photographed on Adventure Beach, South Bruny Island, Tasmania, January 2015

488        EUROPEAN GREENFINCH               Carduelis chloris

Australia            (329)

14-16 cm. Native of Europe, N. Africa and Middle East, introduced into Australia from 1860s, spread to Tasmania in 1940s. Range SE Australia, se tip of SA, all Victoria and Tasmania and se NSW. Found in farmland, weedy wastelands, coastal dunes, swamp-woodlands, roadsides, orchards, parks; favours introduced trees.

DUSKY ROBIN

Photographed on Bruny Island, Tasmania, January 2015

487         DUSKY ROBIN         Melanodryas vittata

Australia       (328)

Also known as Dozey, Stump, Tasmanian or Sleepy Robin. 16-17 cm. Endemic to Tasmania. Found in rainforest margins, tracks, up to 1200 m, open forests/woodlands, scrubs, newly cleared areas, regrowth, country gardens.

NOTE:      Two subspecies:
vittata:       Tasmania
kingii:        King Island

Subspecies kingii, photographed on King Island, June 2018

PINK ROBIN

Female pink Robin, photographed near Ben Lomond National Park, Tasmania, January 2015.

486           PINK ROBIN            Petroica rodinogaster

Australia            (327)

11.5-13 cm. Range: Tasmania, southern and se Victoria, se tip SA, se tip of NSW. Habitat dense, dark forest/treefern gullies, in winter open forests, woodlands, scrublands.

Photographed at Toolangi State Forest, Victoria November 2015

STRIATED FIELDWREN

Photographed near Boobyalia, ne Tasmania, January 2015

485             STRIATED FIEDWREN              Calamanthus fuliginosus

Australia           (326)

Also known as Cocktail, Fieldwork, Reedlark and Sandplain-wren. 12.5-14 cm. Range along coastal se Australia from nw of Sydney to Lake Alexandria in SA; also across Tasmania. Found in low shrubs, tussocks, swamp-fringes, salt marshes; alpine, coastal heaths; dune vegetation.

Photographed on west coast Tasmania, January 2015