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Parkes has or used to have 40 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Red-lored Whistler.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

Red-lored Whistler

Pachycephala rufogularis

Status: Vulnerable

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Pachycephala rufogularis is found across 5 electorates.

The Red-lored Whistler is about 19 to 22 cm long. It has a wing-span of 30 to 33 cm, and a mass of about 37 g. The adults are mainly dull-brownish grey, but they have a distinct rufuous-orange facial patch that extends from the lores down to the chin and throat and, in all males and most adult females, rufous-orange colouring on the lower underbody. They have a black bill, dark red irises, dark grey skin around the eyes, and black to grey-black legs and feet. The sexes generally appear alike, but some females can have a duller colouration that makes them difficult to distinguish from immature males.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Adverse fire regimes