>Hylacola pyrrhopygia (Chestnut-rumped Heathwren)

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren

 

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pardalotidae
Genus:	Hylacola
Species:	H. pyrrhopygia
Binomial name
Hylacola pyrrhopygia (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)
Synonyms
Calamanthus pyrrhopygius

The Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia) is a species of bird in thePardalotidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Conservation status

Australia

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren are not listed as threatened on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

Victoria

• A subspecies of the Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (C. p. pyrrhopygius) listed as threatened on the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (1988). Under this Act, an Action Statement for the recovery and future management of this species has not been prepared.
• On the 2007 advisory list of threatened vertebrate fauna in Victoria, this species is listed as vulnerable.

>Hylacola cauta (Shy Heathwren)

Shy Heathwren

Shy Heathwren
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Acanthizidae
Genus:	Hylacola
Species:	H. cauta
Binomial name
Hylacola cauta Gould, 1843
Synonyms
Hylacola cautus Sericornis cautus Calamanthus cautus Shy Hylacola Mallee Hylacola Malleewren

The Shy Heathwren (Hylacola cauta) is a species of small bird in the Acanthizidae family,endemic to Australia. They inhabit mostly mallee woodland that has relatively dense shrub andheath understorey. Shy Heathwrens feed mostly on ground dwelling insects; rarely on seeds. Their ground level nests are dome-shaped and usually concealed within grass tussocks or shrubs.Within the nest they typically lay 2-3 freckled and pinkish eggs.

The birds are cock-tailed bird with a chestnut rump that darkens towards the tip. Their feathers are white with brown streaking underneath and greyish-brown on the back and crown. They have a white eyebrow, tail tip and patch on the flight feathers and a black bill. Their eyes are brown to yellowish-brown and legs are slate-brown. Females have slightly duller colouring, and immature birds duller again with some of these being fawn coloured underneath.

They are uncommon residents across a wide part of Australia. Ranging from near West Wyalong inNew South Wales to the Murchison River in Western Australia. In New South Wales they are found in two isolated populations - one between Leeton, Willandra, New South Wales, Nymageeand West Wyalong, and the other from Balranald to Trentham Cliffs. Within the state they are seen as a threatened and vulnerable species, largely due to human wrought habitat loss and predationby foxes and cats.

Their taxonomic name was formerly Calamanthus cautus—classing them as fieldwrens— until they were renamed in 2008.

>>Genus Hylacola

Hylacola

Hylacola
Hylacola cauta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Acanthizidae
Genus:	Hylacola Gould, 1843

Hylacola is a genus of bird in the Acanthizidae family. It contains the following species:

• Shy Heathwren (Hylacola cauta)
• Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia)