SPOTTED SCRUBWREN

Photographed at Port Lincoln National Park, South Australia, March 2015

1257                      SPOTTED SCRUBWREN                

AUSTRALIA                         754

Recently split and elevated to full species, was once a subspecies of White-browed Scrubwren.

Photographed at Cheyenne's Beach, WA November 2016

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)