Yellow-throated Scrubwren (Neosericornis citreogularis) [XC332189]
by Marc Anderson from Seal Rocks, Great Lakes Council, New South Wales, Australia (call)
Yellow-throated Scrubwren (Neosericornis citreogularis) [XC326652]
by nick talbot from Seal Rocks, Great Lakes Council, New South Wales, Australia (call)
Nest
Bulky and pear-shaped, with a hooded side-entrance, composed of dark-colored rootlets, threads of horse-hair fungus, and skeletons of leaves and ferns, mingled with moss, lined with feathers, attached near the end of a pendulous branch of a tree, often overhanging water, from 1 - 10 meters above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
3, rarely 2 or 4; smooth and glossy, pale chocolate pink to chocolate brown with a darker zone, or a series of zones, at the larger end; rounded-oval to log-oval; about 26 x 18 mm. Incubation: 21 days; by both sexes.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 21 days. Fed by both parents.
Subspecies
The provenance of intermedius, is uncertain.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
citreogularis Gould, 1838 - Coastal NSW east of the Great Divide, from the Clarence River south to Mt Dromedary.
intermedius (Mathews, 1912) - South-eastern Qld and north-eastern NSW east of the Great Divide, from the Cooroy, Jimna Ranges and Bunya Mountains, Qld south to the Clarence River., NSW.
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