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The striated pardalote (''Pardalotus striatus'') is the least colourful and most common of the four pardalote species. Other common names include pickwick, wittachew and chip-chip.〔 It is a very small, short-tailed bird that is more often heard than seen, foraging noisily for lerps and other small creatures in the treetops. ==Taxonomy== Four full species were originally named, and are clearly recognisable in the field. They are now classified as merely well-defined subspecies instead. * The yellow-tipped pardalote (race ''striatus'') is found mainly in Tasmania, but crosses the 200 miles of Bass Strait to the mainland each winter in a migration. * The striated pardalote, race ''substriatus'', central and western Australia. * The eastern striated or red-tipped pardalote, race ''ornatus'', from the sub-tropical east coast, including the Sydney region. * Two races of the black-headed pardalote, ''melanocephalus'' and ''uropygialis'', from north-eastern New South Wales to north-eastern Queensland, and across the Top End to the Kimberley. All five forms have a black cap which may be striated but never spotted, a white wing stripe and a small, conspicuous wing spot—bright red in all except ''striatus'', which has a yellow spot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「striated pardalote」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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