Showing posts with label Emblema pictum. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 25, 2015

PAINTED FINCH

Photographed at Bush Beach, Western Australia April 2015
582         PAINTED FINCH          Emblema pictum

Australia           (425)

Found in spinifex rocky hills over permanent water, plains; acacia scrubs; citrus orchards. Range is patchy through arid inland and w. coast Australia: e. to Winton-Opalton (Q); n. to Mt Isa-Nicholson R.-Alexandria-Wave Hill (NT); w. to s. Kimberley-Pilbara (WA), to w. coast c. Eighty MileBeach-Carnarvon; s. inland to upper Murchison R.-Menzies; in SA, s. to c. Oodnadatta-n. Flinders Ras.-L. Frome. Nomadic.