Tropical scrubwren

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| name = Tropical scrubwren

| image = Sericornis beccarii - The Birds of New Guinea (cropped).jpg

| image_caption=Illustration by William Matthew Hart

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Sericornis beccarii |volume=2016 |page=e.T104008462A93975091 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T104008462A93975091.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Sericornis

| species = beccarii

| authority = Salvadori, 1874

| synonyms =

}}

The tropical scrubwren or Beccari's scrubwren (Sericornis beccarii) is a bird species. Placed in the family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with opposition and indeed is now known to be wrong; they rather belong to the independent family Acanthizidae.

It is found in tropical moist forests of north-eastern Australia including Queensland,{{Cite web |title=Species profile—Sericornis beccarii (tropical scrubwren) |url=https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=1395 |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=Species information |publisher=Queensland Government}} the Aru Islands and southern New Guinea.

Taxonomy

Sericornis beccarii includes the following subspecies:Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.

  • S. b. wondiwoi – Mayr, 1937
  • S. b. beccarii – Salvadori, 1874
  • S. b. weylandi – Mayr, 1937
  • S. b. idenburgi – Rand, 1941
  • S. b. cyclopum – Hartert, 1930
  • S. b. randi – Mayr, 1937
  • S. b. minimus – Gould, 1875
  • S. b. dubius – Mayr, 1937

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