Passeriformes

Scrub-birds (Atrichornithidae)

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• Small, largely terrestrial, highly secretive birds with short, rounded wings, broad and rather long tail often carried cocked, long and strong legs with well-muscled thighs.
• South-west and eastern Australia.
• Dense undergrowth in scrub, thicket and forest.
• 1 genus, 2 species, 3 taxa.
• 2 species threatened; none extinct since 1600.