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Alternative name: Tropical Scrubwren.

Sericornis beccarii

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Moluccas
Australasia: Island of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Queensland, Melanesia

[edit] Taxonomy

Gill and Wright (2007) consider it conspecific with Large-billed Scrubwren^[2].

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 11 subspecies:

• S. b. wondiwoi:

• North-western New Guinea (Wondiwoi Mountains)

• S. b. cyclopum:

• Northern New Guinea (Cyclops Mountains)

• S. b. weylandi:

• New Guinea (Weyland Mountains)

• S. b. imitator:

• North-eastern New Guinea (Arfak Mountains)

• S. b. idenburgi:

• New Guinea (Gauttier Mountains and slopes above Idenburg River)

• S. b. boreonesioticus :

• Northern New Guinea (Toricelli Mountains)

• S. b. pontifex:

• Northern New Guinea (Sepik Mountains)

• S. b. randi:

• Southern New Guinea (Trans-Fly lowlands)

• S. b. beccarii:

• Aru Islands

• S. b. minimus:

• North-eastern Australia (northern tip of Cape York Peninsula)

• S. b. dubius:

• North-eastern Australia (northern Queensland south to Cooktown)

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase

• List of references

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