Passeriformes

Logrunners (Orthonychidae)

HBW 12, p. 338 Learn more about the Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 12 on the Lynx Edicions website.

• Medium-sized, stocky passerines with powerful legs and well-developed claws, short bill with terminal maxillary notches, rounded wings, and rather short tail with stiffened shafts protruding beyond ends of feathers; plumage a complex combination of brown, rufous, black, grey and white, one species unpatterned black above and white on lower breast and belly.
• Australia and New Guinea.
• Rainforest.
• 1 genus, 3 species, 6 taxa.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.