If the newly split Spotted Scrubwren includes ssp. mellori then I saw one in
cleared dune country along Limestone Coast Road, Cape Jaffa, Kingston in Nov
2015.
Cheers
Steve Clark
Hamilton, Vic
> On 25 Apr 2018, at 10:43, Kev Lobotomi <> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
>
> Just letting you know that the Spotted Scrubwren goes way into South
> Australia, to the Gulf of St. Vincent, and occurs in habitat around Adelaide
> on the coast. It get very close to White-browed here, which occurs in the
> hills around Adelaide. There is not much separation between the two taxa in
> terms of distance. Another good reason for some splitting. Interesting that
> the Kangaroo Island bird genetically falls closer to the White-browed
> Scrubwren than it does to Spotted.
>
>
> Kevin Bartram.
>
>
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> ________________________________
> From: Birding-Aus <> on behalf of John
> Leonard <>
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Two new additions pending
>
> Where is the divide for the Scrubwten? Across the Nullabor?
>
> John Leonard
>
>> On 23 Apr 2018, at 9:19 am, "Stephen Ambrose" <> wrote:
>>
>> Good to see the Spotted Scrubwren could be split from the White-browed
>> Scrubwren. As someone who has studied the ecology of both forms, I cannot
>> understand why they are lumped together as a single species. Their
>> environments, habitats, ecologies (physiological and behavioural), sizes and
>> plumages are so different.
>>
>> Stephen Ambrose
>> Ryde NSW
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
>> Phil Gregory
>> Sent: Sunday, 22 April 2018 2:39 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Two new additions pending
>>
>> Since I got to Kolkata from Ghana, two new potential additions derived from
>> splits:
>> White-bellied Whipbird (Psophodes leucogaster) of South Australia from
>> Western Whipbird, the old Mallee Whipbird of Schodde & Mason Spotted
>> Scrubwren (Sericronis maculatus) of primarily Western Australia from
>> White-browed Scrubwren, long expected.
>> Even more reason for a trip to South Australia now, I am slipping behind
>> with my needed species again.
>> Phil Gregory
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