Chestnut-rumped Thornbill (Acanthiza uropygialis)
About the Chestnut-rumped Thornbill
The chestnut-rumped thornbill (Acanthiza uropygialis) is a small passerine bird in the family Acanthizidae, endemic to Australia. Specially named for its pale-chestnut rump from mediaeval Latin uropygium, the rump. Its other names include chestnut-tailed or chestnut-backed thornbill, tit or tit-warbler, chestnut-rumped tit or tit-warbler. A plain, pale thornbill, with pale eyes, it is widespread throughout inland Australia, west of the Great Dividing Range to the West Australian coast but is absent in the far north and humid southwest Western Australia. It is a cooperative breeder like some of the other thornbills. Described and classified by John Gould in 1838 in Synopsis of Birds of Australia, from a specimen collected in Liverpool Plains NSW.
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Listed as recorded in Australia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Brown ThornbillAcanthiza pusillarecording
- Striated ThornbillAcanthiza lineatarecording
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