Norfolk Robin - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo © by OzV
Norfolk Island, Australia, 26 June 2005

Identification

Female
Photo © by Ken Doy
Norfolk Island, May 2016

13 cm
Male

Black head and upperside with large white spot on forehead and on wing (median to greater coverts and bases on some flight feathers)
Tail black with small white corners
Lower throat, breast and most of belly scarlet, rest including undertail coverts white
Legs and bill black, eye brown

Female

Upperside paler version of male with brown replacing the black and only hints of pale mark on wing and forehead
Throat and chin pale
Orange-scarlet where male is scarlet on underside, rest off white

Immature is similar to female but lacks the reddish on the breast

Norfolk island, Australia

Split from Pacific Robin in 2015.

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Prefers mature forest, may occur in palms and olives.

Insects and other invertebrates.

Song is a couple of notes followed by a chirping series.

Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Boles, W., C. J. Sharpe, and D. A. Christie (2020). Norfolk Robin (Petroica multicolor), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.pacrob2.01

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Norfolk Robin. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 8 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Norfolk_Robin

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