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

TROPICAL SCRUBWREN

Photographed at Iron range, Queensland October 2015

695       TROPICAL SCRUBWREN           Sericornis beccarii

Australia         (537)

Also known as Little Scrubwren. 11.5 cm. Found in rainforests, monsoon forests, vine-scrubs on watercourses. Range: Cape York Pen. (Q), s. to Archer R., Coen and Rocky R. Race minimum occupies n. part of the range; merges with dubious c. Iron Range-Lockhart R. on e. coast and Wedlock-Watson-Archer Rs. in w. Common. Sedentary.

ATHERTON SCRUBWREN

Photographed at Mount Lewis, Queensland September 2015

669          ATHERTON SCRUBWREN              Sericornis keri

Australia          (511)

Found in understorey of mountain rainforests. 13.5 cm. Range: rainforests of Atherton Tableland (Q) above 400 m. Uncommon. Sedentary.

LARGE-BILLED SCRUBWREN

Photographed at Binna Bura, Lamington National Park, Queensland, July 2015

632       LARGE-BILLED SCRUBWREN            Sericornis magnirostris

Australia             (475)

 11.5-13 cm. Found in tropical, temperate rainforests, from sea-level to c. 1500 m. Range: coastal e. Aust.,  from Kingsgate NP, ne. of Melbourne (Vic) to near Cooktown (Q); inland to c. Tenterfield (NSW)-Chinchilla (Q). In se. Aust.,  n. to c. Shoalwater Bay (Q) from sea-level to c. 1000 m. From Euungella NP n. to near Cooktown, mostly in high rainforests.       

TASMANIAN SCRUBWREN

Photographed near Scotsdale, Tasmania, January 2015

484           TASMANIAN SCRUBWREN       Sericornis humilis

Australia             (325)

Also known as Brown Scrubwren. Endemic to Tasmania. 12-14 cm.

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)