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Size: 12cm
Status: Moderately common
Diet: Ground feeder, ripe and semi-ripe seeds and the odd insects.
Habitat: Grassy woodlands.
Breeding: Four to seven eggs are laid in a spherical nest with a tunnel entrance between August and January.
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| | Diamond Firetail
/Diamond+Firetail/$File/Diamond+Firetail.jpg) Lives in lose groups often as many as 40 birds. The Diamond Firetail is also called the Diamond Finch or Diamond Sparrow. |