Vik's Gallery:   Varied Sittella (1/6)

PASSERIFORMES: Neosittidae

Daphoenositta chrysoptera  

Australia has one of the world's three species of Sittella. The other two occur in New Guinea*.

(*Bird Australia published by Dorling Kindersley, 2009).

There are at least five recognised races of Varied Sittella in Australia.

This is striata, Striated Sittella, found in northern Queensland.