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Franklin has or used to have 23 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Forty-spotted Pardalote.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

Forty-spotted Pardalote

Pardalotus quadragintus

Status: Endangered

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Pardalotus quadragintus is found across 4 electorates.

The Forty-spotted Pardalote has a length of about 10 cm, a wingspan of about 18 cm, and a weight of about 9 to 13 g. It is mostly olive-green above, and greyish-white below, with a brighter greenish-yellow face and undertail, a grey-black bill, brown irides, black wings with prominent white spots, a black uppertail, and pinkish-brown legs and feet. Juvenile birds are duller than the adults and have a cream face, a blackish stripe behind each eye, an olive-grey cap on the head and neck, a brown patch over the upper back and shoulders, and a white or flesh-coloured gape. During the breeding season, the Forty-spotted Pardalote forages in pairs or in small, loose flocks. During the non-breeding period, it occurs in monospecific flocks and sometimes in mixed-species flocks. The species occasionally also occurs singly, with solitary individuals usually observed during the non-breeding season in suboptimal habitat. Such observations likely represent dispersal by juvenile birds.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

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