Family
Thornbills and Allies
Acanthizidae
64 species with a page on Motmot.
Order: Passeriformes
Acanthizidae—sometimes called Australian warblers—are a family of passerine birds which includes gerygones, thornbills Acanthiza, and scrubwrens Sericornis. The family Acanthizidae consists of small to medium passerine birds, with a total length varying between 8 and 19 centimetres (3.1 and 7.5 in). They have short rounded wings, slender bills, long legs, and a short tail.
Species in this family
- Inland Thornbill Acanthiza apicalis
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
- Grey Thornbill Acanthiza cinerea
- Tasmanian Thornbill Acanthiza ewingii
- Western Thornbill Acanthiza inornata
- Slender-billed Thornbill Acanthiza iredalei
- Mountain Thornbill Acanthiza katherina
- Striated Thornbill Acanthiza lineata
- Papuan Thornbill Acanthiza murina
- Yellow Thornbill Acanthiza nana
- Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla
- Buff-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza reguloides
- Slaty-backed Thornbill Acanthiza robustirostris
- Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza uropygialis
- Scrubtit Acanthornis magna
- Grey-green Scrubwren Aethomyias arfakianus
- Papuan Scrubwren Aethomyias papuensis
- Buff-faced Scrubwren Aethomyias perspicillatus
- Vogelkop Scrubwren Aethomyias rufescens
- Pale-billed Scrubwren Aethomyias spilodera
- Southern Whiteface Aphelocephala leucopsis
- Banded Whiteface Aphelocephala nigricincta
- Chestnut-breasted Whiteface Aphelocephala pectoralis
- Rufous Fieldwren Calamanthus campestris
- Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus
- Western Fieldwren Calamanthus montanellus
- Chatham Islands Gerygone Gerygone albofrontata
- Green-backed Gerygone Gerygone chloronota
- Yellow-bellied Gerygone Gerygone chrysogaster
- Rennell Gerygone Gerygone citrina
- Rufous-sided Gerygone Gerygone dorsalis
- Fan-tailed Gerygone Gerygone flavolateralis
- Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca
- Biak Gerygone Gerygone hypoxantha
- Grey Gerygone Gerygone igata
- Plain Gerygone Gerygone inornata
- Mangrove Gerygone Gerygone levigaster
- Large-billed Gerygone Gerygone magnirostris
- Norfolk Island Gerygone Gerygone modesta
- Brown Gerygone Gerygone mouki
- White-throated Gerygone Gerygone olivacea
- Fairy Gerygone Gerygone palpebrosa
- Brown-breasted Gerygone Gerygone ruficollis
- Golden-bellied Gerygone Gerygone sulphurea
- Dusky Gerygone Gerygone tenebrosa
- Shy Heathwren Hylacola cauta
- Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Hylacola pyrrhopygia
- Yellow-throated Scrubwren Neosericornis citreogularis
- Fernwren Oreoscopus gutturalis
- Rusty Mouse-Warbler Origma murina
- Mountain Mouse-Warbler Origma robusta
- Rockwarbler Origma solitaria
- Goldenface Pachycare flavogriseum
- Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus
- Redthroat Pyrrholaemus brunneus
- Speckled Warbler Pyrrholaemus sagittatus
- Tropical Scrubwren Sericornis beccarii
- White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis
- Tasmanian Scrubwren Sericornis humilis
- Atherton Scrubwren Sericornis keri
- Spotted Scrubwren Sericornis maculatus
- Large-billed Scrubwren Sericornis magnirostra
- Large Scrubwren Sericornis nouhuysi
- Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris
Lookalikes compared
- Brown Thornbill vs Chestnut-rumped Thornbill
- Brown Thornbill vs Slaty-backed Thornbill
- Buff-rumped Thornbill vs Brown Gerygone
- Chestnut-rumped Heathwren vs Rufous Fieldwren
- Chestnut-rumped Thornbill vs Buff-rumped Thornbill
- Chestnut-rumped Thornbill vs Western Thornbill
- Fairy Gerygone vs White-throated Gerygone
- Grey Gerygone vs Chatham Islands Gerygone
- Pale-billed Scrubwren vs Buff-faced Scrubwren
- Slender-billed Thornbill vs Western Thornbill
- Speckled Warbler vs Buff-rumped Thornbill
- Striated Fieldwren vs Rufous Fieldwren
- Tasmanian Scrubwren vs Spotted Scrubwren
- Vogelkop Scrubwren vs Grey-green Scrubwren
- Western Gerygone vs Grey Gerygone
- Western Thornbill vs Buff-rumped Thornbill
- White-throated Gerygone vs Brown-breasted Gerygone