ROCK WARBLER

Photographed at the Three Sisters, Katoomba.

100         ROCK WARBLER           Origma solitaria

Australia    (100)

Also known as Cataract-bird, Cavebird, Hanging Dick and Origma. 12-14 cm. The Rock Warbler is the only bird endemic to NSW. It is found exclusively around the Hawkesbury sandstone and adjacent area. Found near outcrops and rocky overhangs, along stream beds and amongst boulder strewn hillsides.

WHITE-BROWED SCRUBWREN

99     WHITE-BROWED SCRUBWREN       Sericornis frontalis

Australia     (99)

Also called Spotted scrub wren. 11-13 cm. Range is down east coast from Cooktown, across the southern coast and up west coast to Shark Bay. Found in the undergrowth of forests, woodlands, scrub, heath, bracken, gardens.

NOTE: there are three subspecies of the White-browed scrubwren: Sericornis frontalis frontalis, found in coastal eastern Australia from NSW/Q border around to Adelaide; Sericornis frontalis laevigaster, known as buff-breasted scrubwren, found in coastal Q; Sericornis frontalis maculatus, known as spotted scrubwren, found in coastal southern Australia from Adelaide to Shark Bay.

Subspecies maculatus, photographed at Cheyenne's Beach, WA November 2016

Photographed at Lincoln National park, South Australia March 2015 shows race (subspecies maculates)

SPINY-CHEEKED HONEYEATER

98       SPINY-CHEEKED HONEYEATER               Acanthagenys rufogularis

Australia         (98)

22-26 cm. Found in drier inland, coastalwoodlands, scrubs, fruiting plants and gardens. Ranges over mainland Australia except tropical north, sw WA, down east coast and most of Victoria.