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ShrublandCavity nestTiny · 13 g
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Mainland birds measure 11.5 cm (4+1⁄2 in) in length and olive brown upperparts (greyish brown in the spotted subspecies and dark brown in Tasmania), with prominent pale irises and a white brow. The throat is white with faint streaks in the subspecies frontalis and laevigaster and heavily spotted in maculatus. Ear coverts are grey in frontalis and black in laevigaster, and brownish in the other two subspecies. The underparts are pale, though buff in laevigaster. The thin bill is black. The females are duller overall and generally have pale gray lores, whereas males have blackish lores.
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When to see the White-browed Scrubwren
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 White-browed Scrubwren
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the White-browed Scrubwren
The white-browed scrubwren is a passerine bird found on the New England Tablelands and coastal areas of Australia. Placed in the family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with opposition and indeed is now known to be wrong; they rather belong to the independent family Acanthizidae.
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Easily confused with
Large-billed ScrubwrenSericornis magnirostraThe large-billed scrubwren is 11.5 to 13 cm (4.5 to 5.1 in) in length and weighs 10 g (0.35 oz).
Spotted ScrubwrenSericornis maculatusThe spotted scrubwren is a bird species native to coastal southern Australia, from Adelaide westwards to Shark Bay in Western Australia.
Tasmanian ScrubwrenSericornis humilisThe Tasmanian scrubwren or brown scrubwren is a bird species endemic to the temperate forests of Tasmania and nearby King Island.
Side by side: Large-billed Scrubwren vs White-browed Scrubwren
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