page_title: Spotted pardalote
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Spotted pardalote / Description
caption_attribution_description: Strangways, Vic.
context_page_description: The spotted pardalote is one of the smallest of all Australian birds at 8 to 10 centimetres in length, and one of the most colourful; it is sometimes known as the diamondbird. Although moderately common in all of the reasonably fertile parts of Australia it is seldom seen closely enough to enable identification.
  Three subspecies are recognised. The wet tropics spotted pardalote is found in northeastern Queensland, while the distinctive subspecies, the yellow-rumped pardalote, is found in drier inland regions of southern Australia, particularly in semi-arid Mallee woodlands.
context_section_description: Weighing around 6 grams (0.21 oz), the spotted pardalote is 8 to 10 centimetres (3.1 to 3.9 in) long. The adult male of the nominate subspecies has grey-brown upperparts with numerous paler buff spots, a black crown, wings and tail all with white spots, white eyebrows and reddish rump. The underparts are pale-buff-cinnamon, darkening to a more ochre at the breast, with a demarcated yellow throat and vent. The female is duller overall. The yellow-rumped subspecies is larger overall with a relatively smaller bill. The adult male has finer, white, spots on its back, a bright yellow rump, and a cream breast. The adult female has finer spots than the adult female of the nominate subspecies. The Wet Tropics subspecies is smaller with a relatively larger bill. The adult male has a reddish rump and pale- to cinnamon buff underparts.
caption: The reddish rump of the nominate subspecies is clearly visible (Strangways, Victoria).
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