Acanthiza reguloides

1 Buff-rumped Thornbill at Thurgoona, NSW

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Identification history

	Acanthiza reguloides	31 Jan 2021	ChrisAllen
	Acanthiza pusilla	27 Jan 2021	PaulF

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Thornbill expertise would be appreciated. It was feeding on the ground in open forest.

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ChrisAllen wrote:

31 Jan 2021

Hi Paul, so the way I figured out what species of Thornbill was down to a few features. Brown thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla) have red eyes, which in the first photo you can see isn't the case for this one. Both photos show that yellow underside coupled with the ground foraging that you observed narrowed it down to two species, Yellow-rumped thornbill (Acanthiza chrysorrhoa) and the Buff-rumped thornbill (Acanthiza reguloides). The difference between these two is that the Yellow-rumped thornbill have a black and white spotted area on the head just above the beak which the bird in your photo seems to be missing. Hope that helps

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At least 1 Abundance
26 Jan 2021 09:18 AM Recorded on
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Birds Small (Robin, Finch, Thornbill etc) Other Birds PaulF Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr

Species information

Acanthiza reguloides Scientific name
Buff-rumped Thornbill Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1030.2m Recorded at altitude
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