WESTERN FIELDWREN

Photographed at Nilgen Nature Reserve Lookout, WA, March 2019

1268                WESTERN FIELDWREN                    Calamanthus montanellus

AUSTRALIA                767

Recently split, was considered a subspecies of Rufous Fieldwren. Endemic to sw Australia. Inhabits low shrubland, particularly saltbush and bluebush communities. Forages for insects and seeds, hopping along ground through undergrowth; will hop to top of bushes to investigate disturbance.

RUFOUS FIELDWREN

Photograph at Innes National Park, South Australia March 2015.

534        RUFOUS FIELDWREN            Calamanthus campestris

Australia    (375)

13 cm. Range from sw. Q-far w. NSW-far nw. Vic w. through SA to s. WA, n to NW Cape and Gt sandy Desert, except sw corner. Found in inland/saltmarsh vegetation, saltbush, bluebush, spinifex, holy-poly, low shrubs in depressions in spinifex in gibber plains.

STRIATED FIELDWREN

Photographed near Boobyalia, ne Tasmania, January 2015

485             STRIATED FIEDWREN              Calamanthus fuliginosus

Australia           (326)

Also known as Cocktail, Fieldwork, Reedlark and Sandplain-wren. 12.5-14 cm. Range along coastal se Australia from nw of Sydney to Lake Alexandria in SA; also across Tasmania. Found in low shrubs, tussocks, swamp-fringes, salt marshes; alpine, coastal heaths; dune vegetation.

Photographed on west coast Tasmania, January 2015