Perplexing scrubwren

Perplexing scrubwren
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Sericornis
Species: S. virgatus
Binomial name
Sericornis virgatus
(Reichenow, 1915)

The perplexing scrubwren (Sericornis virgatus) is a bird species. Placed in the family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with opposition and indeed is now known to be wrong; they rather belong to the independent family Acanthizidae.

It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

It owes its vernacular name to its problematic taxonomy. In some areas it interbreeds with the large-billed scrubwren (Sericornis magnirostris), with which it is often considered conspecific, but in other areas they apparently do not interbreed.

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