Tasmanian scrubwren

The Tasmanian scrubwren or brown scrubwren (Sericornis humilis) is a bird species endemic to the temperate forests of Tasmania and nearby King Island. It lives in the understory of rainforest, woodland, dry forest, swamps and coastal scrublands.^[3]

Tasmanian scrubwren
In Tasmania
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Acanthizidae
Genus:	Sericornis
Species:	S. humilis
Binomial name
Sericornis humilis Gould, 1838
Subspecies[2]
S. h. tregellasi - (Mathews, 1914) S. h. humilis - Gould, 1838

Taxonomy

The scrubwrens by Neville William Cayley, including S. humilis on the right.

Placed in the family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with opposition and indeed is now no longer accepted; they instead are currently placed in the independent family Acanthizidae. It is alternately considered a subspecies of the smaller white-browed scrubwren, and further research is needed to understand the relationships between the two species.^[3]

Subspecies

There are two subspecies of Tasmanian scrubwren:^[4]

• S. h. humilis – nominate subspecies; Tasmania
• S. h. tregellasi – King Island