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SHY HEATHWREN FACTS |
Description
The Shy Heathwren is a small brown scrubwren. It has a brown back, chestnut coloured rump, long brown tail that is held angled upwards. It has white stripe about eye. The underside is whitish grey with dark streaks on chest. It has a small white patch on the wing near the shoulder. It is similar to the Chestnut-rumped Heathwren which has less prominent streaking on the chest and no white wing patch. It is fairly uncommon throughout its range.
Other Names
Shy Hylacola, Mallee Hylacola, Mallee wren
Size
13cm
Habitat
found amongst the undergrowth in mallee woodland
Food
mainly insects caught on the ground
Breeding
builds a dome-shaped nest of twigs and other plant material amongst long grass or low shrubs. Lays two or three pale brownish finely spotted eggs
Range
found along south coast of Western Australia and South Australia and into western parts of Victoria and New South Wales
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: | Calamanthus | | Species: | cautus | | Common Name: | Shy Heathwren |
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