PASSERIFORMES: Acanthizidae

Sericornis citreogularis  

Yellow-throated Scrubwren (Sericornis citreogularis)
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© Larry Dunis 2008
Mount Glorious, QLD (Nov, 2008)

Yellow-throated Scrubwren.

"Known also as 'Devil-birds' because they are always found in the darkest parts of the rainforest where they search among litter and mossy logs, the scrub-wrens build a suspended nest that may be three feet in length."*


*Morcombe, Michael (1971). Birds of Australia. Lansdowne Press Pty Ltd, p.12.

Yellow-throated Scrubwren (Sericornis citreogularis)

Yellow-throated Scrubwren

Yellow-throated Scrubwren (Sericornis citreogularis)

Yellow-throated Scrubwren