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Alternative name: Rufous Calamanthus

Calamanthus campestris
Photo by Mat & Cathy
Location: Lake Tyrell, Victoria,Australia

Identification

Distribution

Australia

Taxonomy

Calamanthus campestris has seven subspecies: C. c. winiam

  • Sandplain heaths of south-eastern South Australia and adjacent western Victoria

C. c. campestris

  • South-eastern Western Australia through South Australia to north-western Victoria

C. c. rubiginosus

  • Coastal areas of central Western Australia

C. c. hartogi

  • Dirk Hartog Island (Western Australia)

C. c. dorrie

  • Dorre Island (Western Australia)

C. c. wayensis

  • Salt lakes of central Western Australia

C. c. isabellinus

  • North of Lake Eyre-Frome basin of South Australia and adjacent western New South Wales


Western Fieldwren Calamanthus montanellus is considered conspecific with Rufous Fieldwren by some authorities.

Habitat

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
  2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.

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