Crimson Chat
Male, front
South-eastern Singing Honeyeater
Front
| Crimson Chat Male, front | | South-eastern Singing Honeyeater Front | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||
| Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | ||||
| Family: | Honeyeater (Meliphagidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Crimson Chat (Epthianura tricolor) | ||||
| This Photo: | Male, back | ||||
Thank you Antoni Camozzato for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We were sitting having a coffee and this bright red suddenly started bopping around on the ground in the distance. It's a Mistletoebird ... no a Red-capped Robin ... no it's super chat Never in our wildest dreams did we ever expect to see one of these on Ellura. However, they are found all over the country, from the coast to the deserts. As you can see the males are a bright crimson red with a white patch on the throat and black & white streaked back; which runs around the neck through to the beak. This is individual seemed to be on it's own and at a guess a young bird. Seems "fluffy", but it wasn't cold. The females are brown with a crimson rump; similar to mistletoebirds. | |||||
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