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Male
Photo by aladyforty
Porongerups, Western Australia, 2005

Petroica boodang

[edit] Identification

Length 12-14 cm (4.75-5.5 in)
Male

• Black head, neck and upper parts
• White patch above bill
• Scarlet breast
• White underparts
• White bars on wings
• White outer tail feathers
  

Female
Photo by davesmith
Yanchep National Park, Western Australia, March 2007

Female

• Brown upper parts
• Whitish frontal patch
• Orange-red breast
• Brown wings
• White under parts
  

Young birds similar to females

• Streaked white upper parts
• Buffish tinge on the wings
• Mottled dark brown on the breast and sides of the body

[edit] Similar Species

Similar in morph and markings to all the other members of its genus, but P. multicolor is the only one with a black back and a white spot on the forehead.

[edit] Distribution

South-western and south-eastern Australia and Tasmania.

[edit] Taxonomy

In 1999, Schodde & Mason in their Directory of Australian Birds split the Scarlet Robin into Pacific Robin P. multicolor distributed in various Pacific islands and Scarlet Robin P. boodang with 3 sub-species distributed in Tasmania, south-eastern Australia and south-western Australia. When the two are considered conspecific, the enlarged species is called the Scarlet Robin (P. multicolor).

[edit] Subspecies

Three subspecies recognized:

• P. b. boodang in south-eastern Australia
• P. b. leggi on Tasmania
• P. b. campbelli in south-western Western Australia and South Australia

Until recently considered to be conspecific with Pacific Robin.

[edit] Habitat

Open forest and woodland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

Its diet includes insects.

[edit] Breeding

The open cup nest is built by the female from bark, grass and twigs; all bound together with spider's web. It is lined with soft downy material and camouflaged with moss and lichen. The male feeds the female while she is incubating. Both adults feed the chicks.

[edit] References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Birds in Backyards

• List of references

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