Nest
Dome-shaped, composed of grass, moss, bark fragments and fern-down, lined with fur and feathers, placed near the ground among dense foliage or in a perpendicular fork of a tree about 2 m above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
3 or 4; white, sparingly speckled or finely blotched with red-brown; swollen-oval; about 18 x 14 mm.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous.
Subspecies
Has in the past been placed in genus Sericornis. Recently described subspecies greeniana poorly known, only four specimens. Genus originally combined with feminine adjective, and is thus deemed to be feminine.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
magna (Gould, 1855) - Tasmania (except north).
greeniana Schodde and Mason, 1999 - King Island, Bass Strait.
Similar Species
Tasmanian Scrubwren (Sericornis humilis) which has a buff throat, and upper breast, and lacks white tips to the secondary flight feathers.
Compare Images
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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