I cannot even find anyone PROPOSING to split the Scrubwrens, let alone “…the
newly SPLIT Spotted Scrubwren…”
John Tongue
Devonport
> On 25 Apr 2018, at 1:40 PM, Steve Clark <> wrote:
>
> 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 <>
>> Sent: Monday, 23 April 2018 10:15:15 AM
>> To: <>
>> 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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