SLENDER-BILLED THORNBILL

Photographed near the Nullarbor Roadhouse, SA,  December 2016

963             SLENDER-BILLED THORNBILL           Acanthiza iredalei

AUSTRALIA             695

Also called Dark or Samphire Hornbill. Found in low dense saltbush, bluebush, cotton bush, samphire on salt lakes, salt marshes, low banksia, tea-tree, casuarina scrubs, sandman heaths, mulga, other acacia, mangroves. 9-10 cm. Three subspecies: iredalei subspecies has six separate and isolated populations in Western Australia, and a large population in the Carnarvon bioregion; hedleyi subspecies ranges across eastern Australia; rosinae subspecies can be found in southern Australia.

MOUNTAIN THORNBILL

Photographed at Mount Lewis, Queensland, September 2015

667           MOUNTAIN THORNBILL        Acanthiza katherina

Australia          (509)

Found in mountain rainforests, wooded streams above 450 m. Range: highlands of ne Q., from Cooktown to Mt Spec near Townsville. Common, sedentary.

SLATY-BACKED THORNBILL

Photographed on Nallan Station, Cue, Western Australia April 2015

574          SLATY-BACKED THORNBILL            Acanthiza robustirostris

Australia              (417)

Found in dense mulga,; herbage near salt lakes. 9.5 cm. Range: w. inland Aust.: from Charleville(Q), w. through s. NT, s. to Everard-Musgrave Ras. (SA); to w. coast c. Geraldton-Carnarvon, n. inland to Peak Hill-Ophthalmia R., s. to Yalgoo-Broad Arrow.

WESTERN THORNBILL

Photographed in Dryandra Woodlands, Western Australia April 2015

560            WESTERN THORNBILL             Acanthiza inornata

Australia         (401)

This is the plainest of the hornbills. It is endemic to sw. WA: from c. Hill R. -Moora s. and e. to Stirling Ras. NP. Found in tall forests to open woodlands; coastal scrubs.

STRIATED THORNBILL

510            STRIATED THORNBILL            Acanthiza lineata 

Australia           (352)

10 cm. Found in wetter eucalypt forest/woodlands to mallee; mangroves, parks, gardens. Range along coast inland to w. slopes from Biloela (Q) down and across to Adelaide, includes most of Victoria.

TASMANIAN THORNBILL

Photographed in the car park at Port Arthur, January 2015

478        TASMANIAN THORNBILL               Acanthiza ewingii

Australia            (319)

Endemic to Tasmania. Ranges all over Tasmania, and coastal islands, King Island, Furneaux Group. Found in forests, woodlands, scrubs. 10 cm.

CHESTNUT-RUMPED THORNBILL

457        CHESTNUT-RUMPED THORNBILL             Acanthiza uropygialis

Australia           (305)

10-11.5 cm. Range is widespread s. inland and w Australia, to s. coast w. from Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas (SA); absent from humid sw. WA. Found in drier woodlands, scrubs, thickets, saltbush, bluebush, lignum, open pastoral country, among dead trees and stumps

INLAND THORNBILL

Photographed at Burrendong, NSW, November 2014

419           INLAND THORNBILL          Acanthiza apicalis

Australia       (293)

9.5-11.5 cm. Found in dry scrubs, woodlands, in sw. WA wetter forests, coastal scrub, heaths, mangroves. Widespread inland Aust mainland, nw Vic, w. NSW, w. Q. west to all southern WA, all SA except se corner.    

BUFF-RUMPED THORNBILL

294          BUFF-RUMPED THORNBILL           Acanthiza reguloides

Australia             (264)

Also known as Bark or Buff-rumped Tit, or Varied Thornbill. Range s. and se. mainland, from Atherton in the n., through most of NSW except nw, all of Vict., and across to Adelaide. Found in open stringy bark forest, woodland, scrub and golf courses. 11 cm.

YELLOW THORNBILL

293        YELLOW THORNBILL              Acanthiza nana

Australia            (263)

Also known as Little Thornbill. Range across e. and se. mainland Australia, from Mackay, Atherton Tablelands, to Cunnamulla, in NSW west as far as Cobar/Ivanhoe, all of Vict, and in SA w. to Goolwa and n. to Flinder's Ranges. Found in drier woodlands, coastal and inland scrub, riverine forests, mangroves, orchards, parks and gardens. 10 cm.

YELLOW-RUMPED THORNBILL

161         YELLOW-RUMPED THORNBILL       Acanthiza chrysorrhoa   

Australia          (161)

Largest of Thornbills. Found in short grass on edges of woodlands, scrubland, paddocks, golf-courses, farms, gardens. 11-13 cm. Ranges across Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and sw half WA, central Queensland, sw NT, and all SA except ne.