Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Acanthiza chrysorrhoa· 细嘴莺科(1 photos)
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Yellow-rumped Thornbill
11-13 cm. Largest thornbill: eyebrow white; crown black, spotted white; eye pale; rump bright yellow. Inland, nw. Q birds paler, greener; whiter below, washed yellow. Pairs, companies: hops on open ground, branches; teeters. Flies bouncingly, yellow rump contrasting with black, white-tipped tail.
- Similar Species
- Buff-rumped Thornbill.
- Voice
- pretty tinkling, cyclic song; flight-call 'check-check'.
- Habitat
- short grass on edges of woodlands, scrublands; paddocks, plantations, golf courses, farms, parks, lawns.
- Breeding
- July-Dec.
- Nest
- untidy, domed, with hidden side entrance, capped with rudimentary false cup-'nest'; of grass, plant fibre, spiders' web, egg-sacs; in outer foliage of shrub, tree eucalypt, acacia, introduced conifer, low to 8 m; or in stick nest of raptor, babbler.
- Eggs
- 3-4; dull white, lightly spotted red-brown.
- Range & Status
- e. Aust. and Tas. (except coastal ne. Q n. of Rockhampton); w. through c. Aust., n. to c. Tennant Ck; widespread s. WA, n. to c. Wiluna-Port Hedland; absent driest deserts. Common. Sedentary.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Acanthiza chrysorrhoa normantoni 2. Acanthiza chrysorrhoa leighi 3. Acanthiza chrysorrhoa leachi 4. Acanthiza chrysorrhoa chrysorrhoa
