Tropical scrubwren

The tropical scrubwren or Beccari's scrubwren (Sericornis beccarii) is a bird species. 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.

Tropical scrubwren
Illustration by William Matthew Hart
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Sericornis
Species:
S. beccarii
Binomial name
Sericornis beccarii
Salvadori, 1874

It is found in tropical moist forests of northern Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.

Taxonomy

Sericornis beccarii includes the following subspecies:[2]

  • S. b. wondiwoi - Mayr, 1937
  • S. b. beccarii - Salvadori, 1874
  • S. b. weylandi - Mayr, 1937
  • S. b. idenburgi - Rand, 1941
  • S. b. cyclopum - Hartert, 1930
  • S. b. randi - Mayr, 1937
  • S. b. minimus - Gould, 1875
  • S. b. dubius - Mayr, 1937

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Sericornis beccarii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.


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