The Australasian Warbler family Acanthizidae contains Gerygones, Thornbills, and Scrubwrens. Most species are of dull color. They mainly feed on insects, but some also feed on seeds. Many of the species that are now in Acanthizidae were previously in the family Pardalotidae.
Genus Acanthiza
The nest of the thornbills is a large dome-shaped construction, completely enclosed except for a side hole. It combines long incubation periods with highly synchronous hatching. This combination, normally impossible due to intense competition for food, occurs because parents and (usually) helpers can organise food supply in such a manner that sibling competition for food is virtually absent.
Thornbill,_Brown Acanthiza pusilla Found: Australia
The Brown Thornbill has brown upperparts; lighter underparts with some mottling.
Similar to: Tasmanian Thornbill. Tasmanian Thornbill has lighter belly than Brown Thornbill.
Image by: 1, 2, 3, 4) Nik BorrowsSimilar to: Tasmanian Thornbill. Tasmanian Thornbill has lighter belly than Brown Thornbill.
Thornbill,_Buff-rumped Acanthiza reguloides Found: Australia
Image by: 1) David Cook 2) Nik_Borrow 3, 4) Patrick_K59
Thornbill,_Chestnut-rumped Acanthiza uropygialis Found: Australia
Image by: 1) David Cook - Gluepot Reserve, South Australia, Australia 3) Laurie_Boyle
Thornbill,_Inland Acanthiza apicalis Found: Australia
Image by: 1, 2) Nik_Borrow 3) Charlie Westerinen - Gladstone, Australia 4) Sunflo - South Australia
Thornbill,_Mountain Acanthiza katherina Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Tom Tarrant 2) Brian_McCauley
Thornbill,_Papuan also New Guinea Thornbill Acanthiza murina Found: New Guinea
The Papuan Thornbill has brownish-olive upperparts, head; lighter and mottled forehead; darker lores, ear coverts; pale grayish underparts.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Nigel_Voaden
Thornbill,_Slaty-backed Acanthiza robustirostris Found: Australia
Image by: 1, 2) Brian_McCauley
Thornbill,_Slender-billed Acanthiza iredalei Found: Australia
The Slender-billed Thornbill has olive-gray to dark olive-brown upperparts; olive-yellow base of tail; cream colored underparts.
Image by: 1) Brian_McCauley 2) Sam Gordon - South Australia
Thornbill,_Striated Acanthiza lineata Found: Australia
Image by: 1, 2) David Cook - Wamboin, NSW, Australia 3) Nik_Borrow 4) Brian_McCauley
Thornbill,_Tasmanian Acanthiza ewingii Found: Tasmania
The Tasmanian Thornbill has brown upperparts with rufous-brown patch on wings and forehead; whitish underparts with mottling on throat, upper-breast; white lower-belly.
Similar to: Brown Thornbill. Tasmanian Thornbill has lighter belly than Brown Thornbill.
Image by: 1) Davis Kwan 2) Ron Knight 3) Nik_BorrowSimilar to: Brown Thornbill. Tasmanian Thornbill has lighter belly than Brown Thornbill.
Thornbill,_Western Acanthiza inornata Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Bio Div Lib 3) Fred
Thornbill,_Yellow Acanthiza nana Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Brett Donald 2) David Cook - Mulligan's Flat Nature Reserve, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Thornbill,_Yellow-rumped Acanthiza chrysorrhoa Found: Australia
Image by: 1, 3) David Cook - Bungendore, NSW, Australia 3) Charlie Westerinen 4) Oystercatcher
Genus Acanthornis - 1 genus
Scrubtit Acanthornis magna Found: Tasmania and King Island of Australia
The Scrubtit has mainly brown upperparts, crown; black wings; gray face; white throat, underparts; black and long curved bill.
Image by: 1) JJ Harrison - Tasmania 2, 3) Nik_Borrow
Genus Aphelocephala
Whiteface,_Banded Aphelocephala nigricincta Found: drier regions of Australia
The Banded Whiteface has grayish-brown upperparts, head; white face bordered with darker band; pale blue-gray breast border below with black breast band; white belly.
Image by:
1) Ron Knight - South Australia 2) Laurie_Boyle 3) Brian_McCauley
Whiteface,_Chestnut-breasted Aphelocephala pectoralis Found: Australia
Image by: 1, 2) Tony Morris - South Australia 3) Brian_McCauley
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Whiteface,_Southern Aphelocephala leucopsis Found: Australasia
The Southern Whiteface has brown upperparts, head; white forehead with dark band above; whitish belly may have gray wash.;
Image by: 1) Nik_Borrow. 2, 3) David Cook -
NSW, Australia 4) Laurie_Boyle
Genus Calamanthus
Fieldwren,_Rufous Calamanthus campestris Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Ron Knight - South Australia
Fieldwren,_Striated Calamanthus fuliginosus Found: Africa
Image by: 1) Ron Knight 2) Nik_Borrow 3) birdsaspoetry
Genus Crateroscelis
The Mouse-Warblers
Warbler,_Bicolored_Mouse- Crateroscelis nigrorufa Found: New Guinea
The Bicolored Mouse-Warbler has brownish-black upperparts; rufous underparts.
Image by: 1, 2) Katerina_Tvardikova
Warbler,_Mountain_Mouse- Crateroscelis robusta Found: New Guinea
The Mountain Mouse-Warbler has dark brown upperparts; rufous wash on upper-tail coverts; white chin, throat.
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Katerina_Tvardikova
Warbler,_Rusty Mouse- Crateroscelis murina Found: New Guinea
Image by: 1, 2) Katerina_Tvardikova 3) Ross Tsai
Genus Drymodes
Scrubwren,_Southern Drymodes brunneopygia Found; dry southern parts of Australia
Image by: 1, 2) Brian_McCauley
Genus Gerygone
Gerygone,_Biak Gerygone hypoxantha Found: Biak island of western New Guinea
The Biak Gerygone is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Large-billed Gerygone. The Biak Gerygone has yellowish underparts.
Image by: 1) hbw.com
Gerygone,_Brown Gerygone mouki Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Aviceda - Lamington NP, SE Queensland 2) David Cook - NSW, Australia 3) Brian_McCauley
Gerygone,_Brown-breasted Gerygone ruficollis Found: New Guinea
The Brown-breasted Gergone has brown upperparts; blackish tail; mainly white underparts with variable rusty-buff or buffy-brown wash on side of breast.
Image by:
1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Rosas Tsai
Gerygone,_Chatham Island Gerygone albofrontata Found: Chatham Islands of New Zealand
Image by: 1) Charle Hullmandel
Gerygone,_Dusky Gerygone tenebrosa Found: Australia
The Dusky Gerygone has dusky-gray upperparts; whitish underparts; white eye-ring; black lores, bill, legs.
Image by: 1) Darryl Jones
Gerygone,_Fairy Gerygone palpebrosa Found: Australasia, Indonesia
Image by: 1) Brian_McCauley 2, 3, 4) Tom Tarrant
Gerygone,_Fan-tailed Gerygone flavolateralis Found: east of New Guinea in New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
Image by: 1) Roger Le Guen
Gerygone,_Golden-bellied Gerygone sulphurea Found: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
Image by: 1) Michael Gillam - Thailand 2) Naturelly - Singapore 3)Ariefrahman
Gerygone,_Gray also Gray Warbler Gerygone igata Found: New Zeakand
Image by: 1) John Gerrard Keulemans 2) Tom Tarrant - Canterbury, New Zealand 3) Digital Trails
Gerygone,_Green-backed Gerygone chloronota Found: Australia, New Guinea
The Green-backed Gergone has green upperparts; gray head; whitish underparts; yellowish wash on flanks.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Tom_Tarrant - Northwest Territory (Australia)
Gerygone,_Large-billed Gerygone magnirostris Found: Australia, New Guinea
The Large-billed Gerygone has olive-brown upperparts; gray-brown tail; broad bill and relatively long; whitish underparts. The Biak Gerygone is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Large-billed Gerygone. The Biak Gerygone has yellowish underparts.
Image by:
1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Aviceda - north Queensland 3) Lip Kee - Northern Territory 4) Jerry Oldenettel- Daintree, Australia
Gerygone,_Mangrove Gerygone levigaster Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Aviceda
Gerygone,_Norfolk Island Gerygone modesta Found: Norfolk Island (between Austraila and New Zealand)
Image by: 1) Ed 2) David_Cook
Gerygone,_Plain Gerygone inornata Found: Indonesia, East Timor
Image by: 1) John Gerrard Keulemans
Gerygone,_Rufous-sided Gerygone dorsalis Found: east Indonesia on Lesser Sunda Islands and Kai Islands
Image by: 1) Jon_Hornbuckle
Gerygone,_Western Gerygone fusca Found: Australasia
Image by: 1) Brian_McCauley 2) Nik_Borrow
Gerygone,_White-throated Gerygone olivacea Found: Australasia
Image by: 1) David Cook - Wamboin, NSW, Australia 2) Brian_McCauley
Gerygone,_Yellow-bellied Gerygone chrysogaster Found: New Guinea
The Yellow-bellied Gerygone has brownish-olive upperparts; grayer on cheek; pale supercilium; thin, pale eye-ring; grayish-white chin, throat, breast; pale yellow belly, flanks, vent, under-trail coverts; black bill.
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Katerina_Tvardikova
Genus Hylacola
Heathwren,_Chestnut-rumped Hylacola pyrrhopygia Found: Australia
Image by: 1, 2, 3) David Cook - Wamboin, NSW, Australia
Heathwren,_Shy Hylacola cauta Found: Australia
The Shy Heathwren has gray-brown upperparts; chestnut rump; white supercilium, small patch on flight feathers.
Image by: 1) Ron Knight 2) Nik_Borrow
Genus Oreoscopus - 1 species
Fernwren Oreoscopus gutturalis Found: northern Queensland (Australia)
Image by: 1) Tim 2) Mark_Sanders
Genus Origma - 1 species
Rockwarbler Origma solitaria Found: New South Wales (Australia)
The Rockwarbler is usually seen hopping erratically over rocks whilst flicking its tail. Its preferred habitat is woodlands with sandstone or limestone.
Image by: 1) Gary Warner 2) David Cook - New South Wales 3) Oystercatcher1) Chick
Genus Pachycare - 1 species
Goldenface Pachycare flavogriseum Found: New Guinea
The Goldenface has slate gray upperparts; crown; bright yellow face, throat, underparts; face bordered with black line; black bill; pink legs.
Image by: 1, 2) Katerina_Tvardikova
Genus Pycnoptilus - 1 species
Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus Found: Australia
The Pilotbird has mainly brown plumage; scalloping on breast; orangeish throat.
Image by: 1) Mdekool 2) Tony Morris 3) Nik_Borrow
Genus Pyrrholaemus
Redthroat Pyrrholaemus brunneus Found: Australia
Image by: 1, 3) David Cook 2) Tom Tarrant
1) Female 2) Juvenile male 3) Male
Warbler,_Speckled Pyrrholaemus sagittata Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Brian_McCauley 2) Nik_Borrow 3, 4) David Cook - NSW, Australia
4) Speckled Warbler feeding Black-eared Cuckoo
Genus Smicrornis - 1 species
Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris Found: Australia
Image by: 1, 2) Nik_Borrow 3) Laurie_Boyle
Genus Sericornis
Scrubwren,_Atherton Sericornis keri Found: Australia
Image by: 1, 2) Michael Atherton
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Scrubwren,_Buff-faced Sericornis perspicillatus Found: New Guinea
The Buff-faced Scrubwren has grayish-olive upperparts, crown; orange-buff face, eye-ring; ochraceous-buff underparts.
Image by: 1, 2) Katerina_Tvardikova 3) Jerry Oldenettel - Papua New Guinea 3, 4) Nik_Borrow
Scrubwren,_Gray-green Sericornis arfakianus Found: New Guinea
The Gray-green Scrubwren has dark olive-green upperparts; tail slightly browner; mainly olive underparts with darker olive indistinct streaking; grayish wash on throat.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) hbw.com
Scrubwren,_Large Sericornis nouhuysi Found: New Guinea
The Large Scrubwren brownish-olive upperparts; browner upper-wing, tail; rufous tinge to edges of wings and tail; rufous tinge to face; dull buffy-olive underparts; large bill.
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Katerina_Tvardikova 4) Jerry Oldenettel - Papua New Guinea 
Scrubwren,_Large-billed Sericornis magnirostra Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Brian_McCauley 2) Michael Cooper 3) David Cook
Scrubwren,_Pale-billed Sericornis spilodera Found: New Guinea
The Pale-billed Scrubwren has distintive pale bill; most races have blackish streaking on throat.
Image by:1, 2, 3) Katerina_Tvardikova
Scrubwren,_Papuan Sericornis papuensis Found: New Guinea
The Papuan Scrubwren has olive-green upperparts, crown; brown to black bill.
Image by: 1, 2) Katerina_Tvardikova 3) Jerry Oldenettel - Papua New Guinea
Scrubwren,_Perplexing Sericornis virgatus Found: New Guinea
The Perplexing Scrubwren has greenish-olive upperparts; browner crown, tail; grayish-buff or drab olive underparts.
Image by:1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) hbw.com
Scrubwren,_Tasmanian Sericornis humilis Found: Tasmania and King Island
Image by: 1) Sam Schmidt 2, 3) David Kwan
Scrubwren,_Tropical Sericornis beccarii Found: Australia, New Guinea
The Tropical Scrubwren has dark olive upperparts; browner on crown, wings, tail; whitish throat.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Jordon de Jong
Scrubwren,_Vogelkop Sericornis rufescens Found: New Guinea
Image by:1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Nigel_Voaden
Scrubwren,_White-browed Sericornis frontalis Found: Australia
The White-browed Scrubwren has mainly brown plumage; white eye-brows.
Image by: 1, 2) Nik_Borrow 3) David_Cook 4) Brian_McCauley1) Juvenile
Scrubwren,_Yellow-throated Sericornis citreogularis Found: Australia
The Yellow-browed Scrubwren has dark to olive-brown upperparts; cream, white, or washed-out olive underparts; dark brown wings edged with yellow; white to yellow superciliums. Male has black face; female has brown face.
Image by: 1) Melanie 2) Tom Tarrant 3) David Cook
Family Ifritidae - 1 species
Ifrita,_Blue-capped Ifrita kowaldi Found: New Guinea
The Blue-capped Ifrita has brown upper-parts; yellowish-brown underparts; blue and black crown.
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Katerina_Tvardikova
