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Red-eared Firetail
Stagonopleura oculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
Estrildidae — Waxbills, Munias & Allies
Red-eared Firetail, Stagonopleura oculata, is a bird of dense wetland vegetation in coastal and sub-coastal parts of southwest Australia, where it breeds in the southwest of Western Australia. It is a small finch-like species in the waxbill family. Its plumage is marked by white spots and black barring, with vivid crimson on the ear and upper tail. It is usually seen only for a moment, moving quickly and quietly through thick cover, and it is more often noticed by its soft voice or when it is disturbed into flight.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Estrildidae — Waxbills, Munias & Allies
- Breeding range
- Australasia: sw WA (sw Australia)
