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title: "Grijsroze vliegenvanger"
description: "Petroica rosea — Vogels. The rose robin (Petroica rosea) is a small passerine bird native to Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/rose-robin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Grijsroze vliegenvanger

> Petroica rosea — Vogels. The rose robin (Petroica rosea) is a small passerine bird native to Australia.

- Scientific name: *Petroica rosea*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 1816
- Wikidata: [Q1061885](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1061885)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14167](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14167)

## Names

- en: Rose Robin
- de: Rosenschnäpper
- fr: Miro rosé
- nl: Grijsroze vliegenvanger
- pl: Skalinek różowy

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1746)

## Summary

The rose robin (Petroica rosea) is a small passerine bird native to Australia. Like many brightly coloured robins of the Petroicidae, it is sexually dimorphic. The male has a distinctive pink breast. Its upperparts are dark grey with white frons, and its tail black with white tips. The underparts and shoulder are white. The female is an undistinguished grey-brown. The robin has a small black bill and eyes.
It is endemic to Australia east or south of the Great Dividing Range, from Queensland through to southeastern South Australia. Its natural habitats are the gullies and valleys of temperate forests and subtropical…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_robin

## Photo

![Grijsroze vliegenvanger](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/rose-robin/medium.jpg)

Photo: John Cull · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218843788

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/rose-robin?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).