Striated Pardalote

Stripe Panther bird

Features

The 10 cm long strips Panthers is a bird with mostly dark top, yellow gray underside, fimbriated white primaries, orange or yellow throat, and dark drawings in the face and on the wings and yellow- white stripe over eyes.

Occurrence

The bird lives in eucalypt forests and in forest areas in many parts of Australia. The Tasmanian subspecies winters on the mainland.

Behavior

The strip - searches Panther bird in tree crowns, but also in low bushes, according to invertebrates, including spiders, insects and their larvae, which are picked from leaves.

Reproduction

In the mating season strip Panthers birds form groups of up to six birds or live in pairs. The nest of bark and grass lined with fine material and is located on a tree hollow. Three to six eggs are hatched jointly by the couple. Are the young hatched, they are reared by parents birds and often also by other members of the group.

Subspecies

According to the IOC World Bird List are known 6 subspecies of striped Panther bird. It involves:

• P. s uropygialis Gould, 1840, is found in northern Australia
• P. s melvillensis Mathews, 1912, is present on the Tiwi Islands.
• P. s melanocephalus Gould, 1838, their range is the eastern Australia.
• P. ornatus see Temminck, 1826, their home is the south-east of Australia.
• P. s substriatus Mathews, 1912, we find this subspecies in the western and central Australia.
• P. s striatus ( Gmelin, JF, 1789) nominate form, is found on the islands of Bass Strait and Tasmania.

Etymology and History of Research

Johann Friedrich Gmelin described the birds of the basionym Pipra striata. Only later did he would of the genus Pardalotus Vieillot, slammed 1816.

The word derives from the Greek word Pardalotus » pardalōtos " spotted for "like a leopard " from. The specific epithet is Latin in origin and is derived flute for " of" striatus " striped from ."