Showing posts with label Fieldlark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fieldlark. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 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