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The diamond firetail (Stagonopleura guttata) is a species of estrildid finch that is endemic to Australia. It has a patchy distribution and generally occupies drier forests and grassy woodlands west of the Great Dividing Range from South East Queensland to the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
Diamond firetail Male Female Stagonopleura guttata (Shaw, 1796) Eastern Australia from the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, to south-eastern Queensland, often on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range Size: Habitat: Diet: VU Beautiful firetail Male Female Stagonopleura bella (Latham, 1801) Southeast of Australia; Tasmania: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC
The IBA is an important site for the diamond firetail.. The Goonoo Important Bird Area is a 1034 km 2 tract of wooded land in New South Wales, Australia.It lies between the towns of Dubbo, Gilgandra and Dunedoo, about 200 km north-west of Sydney.
The Kinchina Conservation Park – about 5 kilometres west of Murray Bridge – protects grassy woodland communities considered of high conservation significance and provides habitat for a number of birds that are in decline in the Mount Lofty Ranges, including the diamond firetail, Australasian darter and hooded robin.
Woodland communities provide habitat for threatened woodland bird species, including the critically endangered regent honeyeater, gang-gang cockatoo, diamond firetail and hooded robin. These species are in severe decline due to clearing, habitat fragmentation, reduced food sources and loss of hollow-bearing trees.
Diamond firetail; R. Red-eared firetail This page was last edited on 18 December 2024, at 11:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Diamond dove; Black-banded fruit-dove (until recently considered a subspecies of banded fruit-dove) Christmas imperial pigeon (Christmas Island endemic) Topknot pigeon; Norfolk pigeon (extinct, formerly endemic to Norfolk Island) Horsfield's bronze cuckoo (breeding endemic) Black-eared cuckoo (breeding endemic) Pallid cuckoo (breeding endemic)
The family Estrildidae was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte as "Estreldinae", a spelling variant of the subfamily name. [2] [3] In the list of world birds maintained by Frank Gill, Pamela Rasmussen and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) the family contains 140 species divided into 41 genera. [4]