Passeriformes

Bristlebirds (Dasyornithidae)

HBW 12, p. 532 Learn more about the Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 12 on the Lynx Edicions website.

• Medium-sized passerines with long graduated tail, short and rather rounded wings, fairly long, pointed and stout bill with stiff rictal bristles at base, quite stout legs and feet; dull plumage of brown and grey with some rufous, variable pale spotting, streaking or scaling.
• Australia.
• Dense, low vegetation in heathland and shrubland to forest.
• 1 genus, 3 species, 5 taxa.
• 2 species threatened; one subspecies extinct since 1600.