#sericornis maculatus

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April 15, 2024 - Spotted Scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus) Found in parts of southwestern Australia, these scrubwrens live in a variety of habitats with dense undergrowth, including forests, heathlands, and parks and gardens. They eat arthropods, as well as seeds and fruit, foraging in pairs and small flocks on the ground and in trees and other plants and often joining mixed-species flocks. Breeding in pairs or as groups with up to four helpers, they build domed nests with side entrances from grass, twigs, fine roots, leaves, feathers, and sometimes hair or fine plant material in cavities in trees, banks, human-made locations such as buckets or flower pots, or in vegetation on or near the ground. Females lay clutches of two or three eggs and incubate them alone. Both parents and any helpers feed the chicks.

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Spotted Scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus) © pimelea

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#1994 - Sericornis maculatus - Spotted Scrubwren

Photo by Keith Morris on iNaturalist.

The name apparently translates as Spotted Silkbird, but I don't know what's particularly silky about them. Only distantly related to the feathered Jurassic dinosaur Serikornis.

A small passerine bird found in undergrowth from Adelaide west to Shark Bay. Before 2019 they would have been considered part of the White-browed Scrubwren, S. frontalis, but the taxonomy of the various subspecies of both remains a bit fluid, and they're known to be cross-fertile where the ranges overlap. Their family, the Acanthizidae—sometimes called Australian warblers - are a sister taxon to the Pardalotes (Pardalotidae).

Scrubwrens are among Australia's most active birds, constantly foraging in pairs amongst the leaf-litter for insects, other small arthropods, and the occasional seed.

The call is a harsh chattering of scalding notes, especially when disturbed. Scrubwrens are also accomplished mimics.

The nest is a large ball of grasses and other plant material, with a side tunnel leading to a cup lined with feathers. This is normally built on or near the ground in thick vegetation, but may be in a tree fork a few metres above. Acanthizids have unusually long incubation periods for passerines, rivalling those of much larger Corvids - Scrubwrens may take 3 weeks to hatch.

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Cooleenup Island Species List - BIRDS - June 9th to 11th 2023

12C-18.5C, 2.4mm-12.5mm rain, strong wind on Sunday

(taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Clements, version 2022)

Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis Eurasian Coot Fulica atra Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii Australasian Darter Anhinga novaehollandiae Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius Great Egret Ardea alba White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae Australian Ibis Threskiornis molucca Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes Swamp Harrier (immature) Circus approximans White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus Galah Eolophus roseicapilla Little Corella Cacatua sanguinea Australian Ringneck Barnardius zonarius Redcap Parrot Purpureicephalus spurius Splendid Fairy-wren Malurus splendens Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata Spotted Scrubwren Sericornis maculatus Inland Thornbill Acanthiza apicalis Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca Black-faced Cuckooshrike Coracina novaehollandiae Gray Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen Gray Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa Australian Raven Corvus coronoides Scarlet Robin Petroica boodang Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena Tree Martin Petrochelidon nigricans Silvereye Zosterops lateralis