Rose Robin
Petroica rosea
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,249
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The rose robin (Petroica rosea) is a small passerine bird native to Australia. Like many brightly coloured robins of the Petroicidae, it is sexually dimorphic. The male has a distinctive pink breast. Its upperparts are dark grey with white frons, and its tail black with white tips. The underparts and shoulder are white. The female is an undistinguished grey-brown. The robin has a small black bill and eyes. It is endemic to Australia east or south of the Great Dividing Range, from Queensland through to southeastern South Australia. Its natural habitats are the gullies and valleys of temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Rose robin”.