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Thornbills (Acanthizidae)

Yellow-rumped Thornbill (Acanthiza chrysorrhoa) - HBW 12, p. 608

French: Acanthize à croupion jaune German: Gelbbürzel-Dornschnabel Spanish: Acantiza Culigualda
Other common names: Yellow-tailed Thornbill, Pallid/Yellow-rumped/Yellow-tailed Acanthiza, Pallid/Yellow-rumped/Yellow-tailed Tit, Pallid/Yellow-rumped/Yellow-tailed Tit-warbler, Yellowtail; Leigh’s Acanthiza, Leigh’s Tit/Tit-warbler (leighi)

Taxonomy: Saxicola chrysorrhoa Quoy and Gaimard, 1830, King George Sound, Western Australia.
Absence from Bass Strait islands suggests that Tasmanian race leachi may now be isolated. Geographical variation to some extent clinal, and all three mainland races appear to intergrade. Additional proposed races are ferdinandi (WC Australia, also Great Victoria Desert), which evidently relates to intergrading populations; sandlandi (coastal SC & SE Australia) and addenda (NW Victoria), both considered synonyms of leighi; and pallida (arid parts of Western Australia) and multi (humid SW Western Australia), both synonymized with nominate. Fo.. View all taxonomy...

Taxonomy: Saxicola chrysorrhoa Quoy and Gaimard, 1830, King George Sound, Western Australia.
Absence from Bass Strait islands suggests that Tasmanian race leachi may now be isolated. Geographical variation to some extent clinal, and all three mainland races appear to intergrade. Additional proposed races are ferdinandi (WC Australia, also Great Victoria Desert), which evidently relates to intergrading populations; sandlandi (coastal SC & SE Australia) and addenda (NW Victoria), both considered synonyms of leighi; and pallida (arid parts of Western Australia) and multi (humid SW Western Australia), both synonymized with nominate. Four subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

chrysorrhoa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830) - CW, SW & S Western Australia.
normantoni (Mathews, 1913) - C & inland NE Australia.
leighi Ogilvie-Grant, 1909 - S & SE Australia.
leachi Mathews, 1912 - N & E Tasmania.

Least Concern

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Yellow-rumped thornbill. Locality Callum Brae, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 16 January 2011 1 year ago 4.2
Yellow-rumped thornbill in eucalypt Locality Namadgi Visitors Centre, Tharwa, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 3 January 2010 2 years ago 4
Yellow-rumped thornbill, portrait of head. Locality Fyshwick Sewage Ponds, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 13 February 2011 1 year ago 3.9
Foraging on a lawn, with an insect in its mouth Locality Hall's Gap, Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia
Ian Barker 13 March 2012 4 weeks ago 3.8
Perched on a branch overlooking a lawn where it had been foraging Locality Hall's Gap, Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia
Ian Barker 13 March 2012 4 weeks ago 3.8
Yellow-rumped Thornbill foraging on the ground Locality Jerrabomberra, New South Wales, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 14 April 2012 6 weeks ago 3.8

Sounds

A group of birds moving through the trees. Locality Wyperfeld National Park, Victoria, Australia (ssp leighi)
Nick Talbot 20 March 2012 9 weeks ago 3
A bird singing from a tree. Locality Berri, South Australia, Australia (ssp leighi)
Peter Waanders 21 April 2010 2 years ago 3

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