RUFOUS SCRUBBIRD

Photographed at Brushy Mountain Camping Ground, Werrikimbe National Park, near Walcha, NSW, October 2018

1262                   RUFOUS SCRUBBIRD                   Atrichornis rufescens   

AUSTRALIAN                   759

Found in isolated pockets of dense moist tangles of ferns and undergrowth up to a metre high, with tussocks, fallen logs and deep leaf litter; often adjacent or near temperate rainforests, including Antarctic beech. Isolated populations above 600 m; from Mt Mistake, s of Gratton (Q), s to McPherson's Ranges and ranges in ne NSW, inland to New England Ranges and Gibraltar Range N"P s to Barrington Tops NP (NSW). Rare, sedentary, range much reduced by logging.