> informed otherwise, however, I would bet that there are regional
> dialects
> within races not to mentioned across races. If so, this begs the
> question:
> how sedentary are pardalotes?
>
> I've certainly noted variation in Striated Pardalote calls across
> western Victoria, but I seldom make the effort to track the bird down
> & identify it to race (I used to in the old days: Striated, Eastern
> Striated & Yellow-tipped all occur around here). I think your
> suggestion about regional/race dialects is very likely to be true.
>
> Spotted & Yellow-rumped Pardalotes have quite distinct calls; more
> distinct than the variation within Spotted proper.
>
> I seem to recall that Yellow-tipped Pardalotes were regarded as
> putative trans-Bass Strait migrants from Tassie, but have no idea
> whether that has ever been substantiated. Some foggy recollection
> also that Eastern Striated race birds were regarded as a putative
> stable hybrid between Striated & Yellow-tipped.
>
> Sorry for the vague postulations about subspecific taxonomy of
> Pardalotus, but this thread has triggered some old memories.
>
>
> Lawrie Conole
> Geelong, Victoria, Australia
>
>
> " ... night still fills the steep ravines where southbound migrants
> descend at day to feed and rest. The golden birds fall from the
> morning sun like blowing sparks that drop away and are extinguished in
> the dark ..."
> Peter Matthiessen (1978, "The Snow Leopard")
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