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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Buff-rumped Thornbill is greyish olive on the back and head and creamy yellow coloured on the underside. As the name indicates it has a buff coloured rump. The eye has a pale iris. The tail is dark with a lighter tip. There are four separate subspecies. this species is not particularly common and population is in decline due to habitat loss.
Size
10cm
Habitat
open forest, woodland
Food
insects and sometimes seeds
Breeding
The nest is a dome made of bark, moss grass, bound with spider web and lined with feathers. The nest is positioned on a tree often amongst bark.
Range
eastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales, Victoria and south eastern South Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Acanthizidae | | Genus: | Acanthiza | | Species: | reguloides | | Common Name: | Buff-rumped Thornbill |
Relatives in same Genus
Inland Thornbill (A. apicalis)
Yellow-rumped Thornbill (A. chrysorrhoa)
Tasmanian Thornbill (A. ewingii)
Striated Thornbill (A. lineata)
Yellow Thornbill (A. nana)
Brown Thornbill (A. pusilla)
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