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YELLOW THORNBILL FACTS |
Description
The Yellow Thornbill is a brownish olive colour above with yellow underside. The throat is reddish brown. This species is the yellowest of all the Thornbills, and can be distinguished from the similar Yellow-rumped Thornbill by the bright yellow underside. Male and females birds are similar in colour. young birds are similar to adults but duller in colour.
Size
10cm
Habitat
open forest and woodland, shrubland, parks and gardens
Food
insects and sometimes seeds
Breeding
The nest is a dome made of grass and bark and lined with feathers and soft plant material. The nest is usually in high tree branch
Range
Queensland, 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: | nana | | Common Name: | Yellow Thornbill |
Relatives in same Genus
Inland Thornbill (A. apicalis)
Yellow-rumped Thornbill (A. chrysorrhoa)
Tasmanian Thornbill (A. ewingii)
Striated Thornbill (A. lineata)
Brown Thornbill (A. pusilla)
Buff-rumped Thornbill (A. reguloides)
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