Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebrates

ShrublandDomed nestSmall · 17 g

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Rolf Lawrenz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Chris Lindorff, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia), photo 4 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Zara, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Peter Crowcroft, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Nathan Ruser, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Tim, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The chestnut-rumped heathwren is a small bushland bird with an olive-brown back with conspicuous reddish-brown rump and tail coverts. It has a streaked brown-on-white chest and the belly and rear flanks are grey-buff. There is a dark subterminal band with a white tip on the usually erect tail. Both sexes have a dull white eyebrow; eyes are yellow, while bill, legs, and feet are grey. There are only small differences between the subspecies that are not easily recognised in the field. It measures 14 cm (5.5 in) in length.

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When to see the Chestnut-rumped Heathwren

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Chestnut-rumped Heathwren

Regular range

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Australia

About the Chestnut-rumped Heathwren

The chestnut-rumped heathwren is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is endemic to temperate and subtropical forests and heathlands of Australia.

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Easily confused with

Shy HeathwrenHylacola cautaThe birds are cock-tailed with a chestnut rump that darkens towards the tip.

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