wrote:
Our list has a sighting of Broad-Tailed Thornbill. I seem to recall
> that even then there was some uncertainty about this as a separate
> species, and now it seems to have disappeared. What I am uncertain
> about is whether it is part of the Brown Thornbill or the Inland
> Thornbill. Google research pointed in both directions.
According to the 2003 "Draft Working List of Birds of Australia and
Australian Territories", it's Inland Thornbill, Acanthiza apicalis.
According to Christidis and Boles (1994), there was some uncertainty
as to the status of it and Brown Thornbill, Acanthiza pusilla; does
anyone known is this has been sorted out yet?
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