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Varied Sittella Daphoenositta chrysoptera |
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Varied Sittellas are specialist feeders on insects found on eucalypt trunks, branches and twigs and are fairly common in the woodlands around Canberra. Usually in small flocks of about six to eight, they work their way systematically through the tree, spiralling downwards around trunks and branches, searching for insects in the bark. They are not really suburban birds, probably because eucalypts are not in sufficient density to provide adequate food. Numbers are greatest from April to July and lowest from October to December. Sightings are widespread, so higher numbers from 1983 to 1991 may be due largely to records from a particularly productive site in Aranda over this period. Breeding records, all from central suburbs next to reserves, include nest building in mid-October and dependent young from late December to mid-February. R=74. BR=53.
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