Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Fighting | South-eastern Southern Whiteface Juvenile | |||||
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| Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||||||||||||
| Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Australasian Warbler (Acanthizidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Chestnut-rumped Thornbill (Acanthiza uropygialis)| This Photo: | 🔍Nest🔎 | Thank you Antoni Camozzato & Andrew Allen for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere Very obvious brown & buff ring pattern around the eye. Striated throat. The chestnut-rump is easily hidden by the wings. Eye is off-white. Eye colour helps greatly when trying to identify a thornbill when the rest of the bird is obscured. Similar Species: Inland Thornbill (Acanthiza apicalis)
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