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Australian Warblers
The Acanthizidae—known as Australian warblers—are a family of passerine birds which includes gerygones, the thornbills ''Acanthiza'', and the scrubwrens of ''Sericornis''. The Acanthizidae family consists of small to medium passerine birds, with a total length varying between . They have short rounded wings, slender bills, long legs, and a short tail. Most species have olive, grey, or brown plumage, although some have patches of a brighter yellow. The weebill is the smallest species of acanthizid, and the smallest Australian passerine; the largest is the pilotbird. Taxonomy and systematics Following the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy (1990) they were previously regarded as subfamily Acanthizinae within the family Pardalotidae. More recent molecular genetic studies do not support this arrangement. The Dasyornithidae (which include the bristlebirds) are variously seen either as subfamily Dasyornithinae within the family Acanthizidae or Pardalotidae or as own family (Schodde & Mason ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Thornbill
The brown thornbill (''Acanthiza pusilla'') is a passerine bird usually found in eastern and south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It can grow up to long, and feeds on insects. It is brown, grey and white. The species has five subspecies. Taxonomy The brown thornbill is a member of the order Passeriformes, the family Acanthizidae, and the genus ''Acanthiza''. It also has five subspecies: ''Acanthiza pusilla pusilla'', ''A. p. diemenensis'', ''A. p. zietzi'', ''A. p. archibaldi'', and ''A. p. dawsonensis''. The species was first described by George Shaw in 1790. The nominate subspecies ''A. p. pusilla'' was described by Shaw in 1790 and the subspecies ''A. p. diemenensis'' was first described by John Gould in 1838. ''A. p. zietzi'' was described by Alfred John North in 1904, ''A. p. dawsonensis'' was described by Archibald George Campbell in 1922, and ''A. p. archibaldi'' was described by Gregory Mathews in 1910. The generic name ''Acanthiza'' derives from Ancient Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthornis
The scrubtit (''Acanthornis magna'') is a species of bird in the thornbill family Acanthizidae. It is endemic to Tasmania and King Island in Australia. Its natural habitat is the temperate rainforest, ''Nothofagus'' beech forest and eucalypt woodland. It is a small species that resembles the ''Sericornis'' scrubwrens (with which it was once placed). Taxonomy The scrubtit belongs to the monotypic genus ''Acanthornis''. A 2017 genetic study using both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA found the ancestor of the scrubtit diverged from that of the three whitefaces of the genus ''Aphelocephala'' around 7 million years ago. The combined lineage had diverged from the thornbill lineage around 13 million years ago. Description The scrubtit is long and weighs around . The plumage consists of a white throat and belly, a brown back, crown, flank and tail, black wings and grey on the face. The eye is pale and the bill is short, black and slightly curved. The species is often silent, but makes qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies, and named it . In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through an Anglo-French condominium. An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crateroscelis
''Crateroscelis'' is a songbird genus of the Australasian "warbler" family (Acanthizidae). It was formerly placed in the Pardalotidae, which are now considered monotypic to genus. The common name of these birds is mouse-warblers. It contains the following species: * Rusty mouse-warbler, ''Crateroscelis murina'' * Bicolored mouse-warbler, ''Crateroscelis nigrorufa'' * Mountain mouse-warbler The mountain mouse-warbler (''Origma robusta'') is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. This species was former ..., ''Crateroscelis robusta'' References * Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. Acanthizidae Bird genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Acanthizidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aphelocephala
''Aphelocephala'' is a genus of bird in the thornbill family Acanthizidae. The three species are collectively known as whitefaces. They are endemic to Australia, generally occurring in the arid centre of the continent. They are a striking looking bird, particularly compared to their duller looking relatives, having dark upperparts and white breasts and faces (as suggested by the name). Two species, the chestnut-breasted and banded whitefaces, break up the white undersides with a darker band (or double band). The three species have stubby bills and unlike the rest of the Acanthizidae they consume large numbers of seeds in their diet. The genus had been originally described as ''Xerophila'' by John Gould, however Harry Church Oberholser pointed out that this genus name had been given to a genus of mollusc. Hence he proposed the name ''Aphelocephala'' from the Ancient Greek ''aphelos'' "simple" and ''kephale'' (Latin:''caput'') "head". It contains the following species: * Southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerygone
''Gerygone'' (), the gerygones or peep-warblers, is a genus of bird in the family Acanthizidae. The genus ranges from Southeast Asia through New Guinea and Australia to New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. Most of the species are found in Australia and New Guinea; only one, the golden-bellied gerygone, has managed to cross Wallace's Line and colonise as far as Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. Gerygones are insectivores which obtain most of their food by gleaning and snatching in the foliage of trees and bushes. They are small, mostly weighing an average of 6–7 g, and show little variation in size across their range, except for the insular Chatham gerygone, which is nearly twice as large as the rest of the genus. Their songs are described as "simple but delightful", many descending in pitch, and some species are excellent mimics. "Gerygone" means "born of sound" (Magrath 2003). The genus contains 20 species including one which is now extinct: * Brown gerygone, ''Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aethomyias
''Aethomyias'' is a genus of passerine birds in the family Acanthizidae that are endemic to New Guinea. A molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens and mouse-warblers published in 2018 led to a substantial revision of the taxonomic classification. In the reorganisation the genus ''Aethomyias'' was resurrected to bring together a group of scrubwrens that had previously been placed in the genera '' Sericornis'' and ''Crateroscelis''. The genus ''Aethomyias'' had originally been introduced by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1879 with the pale-billed scrubwren (''Aethomyias spilodera'') as the type species. The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek ''aēthēs'' "unusual" or "change" with the Modern Latin ' meaning "flycatcher". The genus contains six species: * Bicolored scrubwren, ''Aethomyias nigrorufus'' * Pale-billed scrubwren, ''Aethomyias spilodera'' * Vogelkop scrubwren, ''Aethomyias rufescens'' * Buff-faced scrubwren, ''Aethomyias perspicillatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origma
''Origma'' is a genus of passerine birds in the family Acanthizidae. A molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens and mouse-warblers published in 2018 led to a revision of the taxonomic classification. The genus ''Origma'' had previously contained only a single species, the rockwarbler, but in the reorganisation two additional species from the genus ''Crateroscelis'' were added. The rockwarbler diverged from the common ancestor of the other two species—the mousewarblers of New Guinea—around 9 million years ago. The genus contains three species: * Rockwarbler, ''Origma solitaria'' * Rusty mouse-warbler, ''Origma murina'' – previously placed in ''Crateroscelis'' * Mountain mouse-warbler The mountain mouse-warbler (''Origma robusta'') is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. This species was former ..., ''Origma robusta'' – previously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyrrholaemus
''Pyrrholaemus'' is a genus of birds in the family Acanthizidae. The genus was introduced by the English ornithologist and bird artist John Gould in 1841. The name ''Pyrrholaemus'' is from classical Greek ''purrhos'' meaning "flame-coloured" or "red" and ''laimos'' for "throat". The genus contains two species: * Redthroat (''Pyrrholaemus brunneus'') * Speckled warbler The speckled warbler (''Pyrrholaemus sagittatus'') is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is endemic to eastern Australia. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. Taxonomy The speckled warbler was first described by English physic ... (''Pyrrholaemus sagittatus'') References Bird genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Acanthizidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pycnoptilus
The pilotbird (''Pycnoptilus floccosus'') is a species of passerine bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is monotypic within the genus ''Pycnoptilus''. The species is endemic to south-eastern Australia. Taxonomy The species was first described by English ornithologist John Gould in 1851. The generic name ''Pycnoptilus'' derives from the Ancient Greek 'thick' and 'feather'. Its specific epithet ''floccosus'' is Late Latin for 'flocked with wool'. There are two subspecies: the nominate subspecies ''Pycnoptilus floccosus floccosus'' lives in alpine areas; and ''P. f. sandfordi'' lives in lowland forest.Gregory, P. (2020). "Pilotbird (Pycnoptilus floccosus), version 1.0." In ''Birds of the World'' (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.pilotb1.01 Description The pilotbird is a large, plump species of acanthizid, measuring around in length and weighing . The plumage o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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