FEATURE


Taxonomic source(s): Christidis and Boles (1994), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)


Species named by Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841.


First recorded in UK in 1861. First breeding 1908, Mathias – Hetley. (Immernam)


West Papua, Indonesia & Papua New Guinea. It is commonly found in moist savannah, and subtropical/ tropical (lowland) moist scrublands. Find a Pandanus stand and water and you should find crimsons in the Australian top end. Neochmia phaeton, phaeton The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.


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ange and population Neochmia phaeton, is a common species of estrildid finch found in Australia,


Neochmia phaeton evangelinae & Neochmia phaeton iredalei


is listed as


‘Vulnerable’ under Schedule 3 of the Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation 1994


Other names: The Crimson Finch is also


known as the Blood Finch, Pale Crimson Finch, White-bellied Finch and Australian Firefinch (Higgins et al. 2006).


Neochmia phaeton phaeton: (black bellied) across the top end of Australia from Broom in the Kimberley Division in Western Australia to Mount Isa and the Barkly Tableland in north-western Queensland Neochmia phaeton iredalei on the east coast of Queensland from Princess Charlotte Bay and Broad Sound to the drainage basins of the lower Dawson and Mackenzie Rivers;


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