![]() | Varied Sittella Male, feeding chicks | Varied Sittella Female, back | ![]() | |||
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Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Sittella (Neosittidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
Species: | Varied Sittella (Daphoenositta chrysoptera ssp pileata)This Photo: | 🔍Female, upside down🔎 | Thank you Alan Melville for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Ours are the "Black-capped Race" Often upside down. Very pretty black & white chequered rump. Yellow legs, beak and eye-ring. Orange stripe on its wings when flying. Upturned beak. Female is actually prettier than the male.
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