Painted Firetail Finch

Order Passeriformes; Family Estreldidae (Australian Finches & Waxbills); Formerly in: Family Ploceidae; Scientific name: Emblema picta; In some literature incorrectly: Emblema pictum; Common name: Painted Firetail Finch – Male coming for drink - Distribution in Australia: inhabitant of deserts and semiarid areas from Shark Bay in Western Australia northwards to southern fringes of Kimberley Region, through the southern two thirds of the Northern Territory, to western Queensland and northern South Australia.