Yellow-throated Scrubwren - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo © by Hans&Judy Beste
Toowoomba Shire, Queensland, Australia, 22 July 2018

Neosericornis citreogularis

Sericornis citreogularis

Identification

Female
Photo © by Pearly_Shells
Lamington NP, Queensland, Australia, April 2006

12–15 cm (4¾-6 in)

Males:

Black facial mask and forehead
White and yellow supercilium
Bright yellow throat
Dark olive brown crown and back
White belly
Olive flanks
Dark greyish brown wings with yellowy outer edges
Cream to pinkish grey legs
Black bill

Females: brown face mask and forehead
Young birds are duller than adults, with fawn underparts.

Distribution

East coast of Australia: found in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

N. c. cairnsi:

North-eastern Queensland (Cooktown to Paluma Range)

N. c. intermedius:

Eastern Australia (south-eastern Queensland to Clarence River, New South Wales)

N. c. citreogularis:

Eastern New South Wales (Clarence River to Mount Dromedary)

Habitat

Dark understorey of coastal rainforests and wet, timbered gullies with dense vegetation.

Behaviour

Old nest of subspecies intermedius
Photo © by Delia Todd
Lamington NP, Queensland, Australia, 16 October 2019

Diet

Their diet consists mostly of insects, worms and spiders, with the inclusion of seeds, fungus and fruit.

Breeding

They build a long, bulky domed nest with a hooded side entrance, from roots, vine tendrils, leaf skeletons, moss and twigs, and lined with feathers. The clutch consists of 2-3 brownish purple to pale brownish white eggs with darker spots or blotches.

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2016)
Birds in Backyards

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-throated Scrubwren. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 15 October 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-throated_Scrubwren

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