Chestnut-rumped Thornbill

Acanthiza uropygialis Gould, 1838

Chestnut-rumped Thornbill, Acanthiza uropygialis, is a passerine in the Acanthizidae that breeds across inland western and south-western Western Australia to south-east Queensland and northern Victoria. It is a plain, pale thornbill with pale eyes, and its name refers to the chestnut rump. Gould described it in 1838. It is also known as chestnut-tailed thornbill, chestnut-backed thornbill, tit, tit-warbler, chestnut-rumped tit and chestnut-rumped tit-warbler. It is a cooperative breeder.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Acanthizidae — Australasian Warblers

Breeding range

Australasia: inland w, sw WA to se QLD and n VIC (wc to sc Australia)