BirdUp · Species
Spotted Scrubwren
Sericornis maculatusGould, 1847
- Order
- PASSERIFORMES
- Family
- Acanthizidae
- Genus
- Sericornis
- Commonness
- Endemic
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The spotted scrubwren is a bird species native to coastal southern Australia, from Adelaide westwards to Shark Bay in Western Australia. It was formerly considered conspecific with the white-browed scrubwren, and is known to hybridize with that species where their ranges overlap in the Adelaide area. Genetic analysis in a 2018 study of the family found that this taxon was more divergent from the white-browed scrubwren than the Tasmanian or Atherton scrubwrens and hence proposed its reclassification as a species. It was reclassified as a species in 2019.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- South-west and south Australia
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