Gouldian Finches are distributed across the savanna grasslands of Australia’s tropical north from Derby, WA, to the Gulf of Carpentaria and across to central Cape York and the Atherton Tablelands.Several species occur across the northern grasslands, but some are found throughout temperate Australia as far south as Tasmania. Gouldian’s are one of Australia’s 18 grass finches.Young Gouldian Finches are dull ashy grey on the head and hind neck, becoming olive on the back and tail. Head colour is usually black (about 75% of the wild population), but 24% have red heads and 1% have yellow heads. They are small birds, with a bright green back, yellow belly and a purple breast.Gouldian Finches are Australia’s most spectacularly coloured grass finches, and are perhaps the most spectacularly coloured of all Australian birds.The Endangered Gouldian Finch, Erythrura gouldiae This is The Kimberley at the end of the wet season.īest of all the Gouldian Finch are breeding and are in wonderful condition.” “From deep water pools -along the road to nowhere- to parched cracked earth. If we are lucky enough to visit again in 2026 who knows what picture’s we will be able to show you then. These are some pictures of the research area this year. Mike and I are here visiting ten years on in April 2016. Thousands of hours back at the universities assembling information and calculating results. Thousands of nest boxes have been made there by volunteers. Thousands of hours of work both in the field and in the centre itself, in wet seasons and dry seasons, all working to help this finch which is so reluctant to adapt to any change in its environment. The research centre in Wyndham was opened in 2006 in order to provide accommodation for scientists involved in saving the beautiful endangered Gouldian Finch.
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