This growing split between members' attitudes to bird-study came to a head at the 1935 campout at Marlo, eastern Victoria, when a museum ornithologist, George Mack, provocatively shot a Scarlet Robin at its nest, which had been under observation by the party.
The Scarlet Robin is a territorial and monogamous species, and defends its nesting territories both from others of the same species and pairs of the related Flame Robin.
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It is similar in plumage to the Scarlet Robin of Australia, and until recently the two were considered conspecific until split in 1999 by Schodde and Mason.