Thornbills (Acanthizidae)
Inland Thornbill (Acanthiza apicalis) - HBW 12, p. 604
French: Acanthize troglodyte
German: Stelzschwanz-Dornschnabel
Spanish: Acantiza Apical
Other common names: Broad-tailed/Red-rumped/Red-tailed/Rufous-rumped/Inland Brown/Western Thornbill, Broad-tailed/Red-rumped/Red-tailed/White-scaled Tit, Broad-tailed/Red-rumped/Red-tailed Tit-warbler; Whitlock’s Thornbill/Tit (whitlocki); White-bellied Thornbill (cinerascens); Tanami Thornbill/Tit (“tanami”)
Taxonomy: Acanthiza apicalis Gould, 1847, Swan River and King George Sound, Western Australia.
Taxonomy complex. Probably forms a superspecies with A. pusilla, with which has often been treated as conspecific; some hybridization between the two likely in SE South Australia, where individuals with intermediate plumage occur. Race diemenensis of A. pusilla seems to be genetically more like present species. Proposed race tanami (from arid interior in N Western Australia, Tanami district and Dalmore Downs, in Northern Territory, E to Duchess, in Queensland) is considered synonymous with whitlocki; described race leeuwinensis (humid coast of SW Aust.. View all taxonomy...
Taxonomy complex. Probably forms a superspecies with A. pusilla, with which has often been treated as conspecific; some hybridization between the two likely in SE South Australia, where individuals with intermediate plumage occur. Race diemenensis of A. pusilla seems to be genetically more like present species. Proposed race tanami (from arid interior in N Western Australia, Tanami district and Dalmore Downs, in Northern Territory, E to Duchess, in Queensland) is considered synonymous with whitlocki; described race leeuwinensis (humid coast of SW Australia) appears to refer to an intergrade population between nominate and whitlocki. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- whitlocki North, 1909 - W & C Australia.
- apicalis Gould, 1847 - S coastal and subcoastal Australia.
- cinerascens Schodde & Mason, 1999 - CW Queensland.
- albiventris North, 1904 - inland CE & SE Australia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird foraging in vegetation. Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia (ssp albiventris)
Josep del Hoyo 29 October 2009 1 year ago 24 sec 4 -
one moving in bush Locality Perup Forest Ecology Centre, Western Australia, Australia (ssp whitlocki)
Martin Kennewell 5 February 2011 1 year ago 13 sec 3.8 -
A bird moving in a tree Locality St Kilda, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Philip Griffin 28 April 2001 8 years ago 18 sec 3.2 -
A bird foraging on the ground Locality Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (ssp albiventris)
Rigdon Currie 30 September 2002 3 years ago 7 sec 2.8
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Singing from a dead branch
Locality Stirling Range Retreat, Stirling Range National Park, Western Australia, Australia (ssp whitlocki)
Clive Nealon 18 September 2007 24 weeks ago 4 -
A bird perched.
Locality Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, Australia (ssp albiventris)
Josep del Hoyo 29 October 2009 1 year ago 3.8 -
Perched
Locality Cocoparra National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 30 April 2010 1 year ago 3.8 -
A bird perched
Locality Wilpena Pound, South Australia, Australia
Arthur Grosset 16 March 2006 2 years ago 3.5 -
Perched on rim of bird bath
Locality Lesmurdie, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Nicholas Tomney 12 April 2012 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.4 -
Foraging in a native heath
Locality Stirling Range Retreat, Stirling Range National Park, Western Australia, Australia (ssp whitlocki)
Clive Nealon 25 October 2005 24 weeks ago 3
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