Editing Scrubbird

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Scrubbird
| image = Atrichornis-clamosus.jpg
| image_caption = [[Noisy scrubbird]] (''Atrichornis clamosus'')
| parent_authority = [[Leonhard Hess Stejneger|Stejneger]], 1885
| taxon = Atrichornis
| authority = [[Leonhard Hess Stejneger|Stejneger]], 1885
| type_species = ''[[Noisy scrubbird|Atrichia clamosa]]''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=116 |title= Ptilorhynchidae |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}</ref>
| type_species_authority = Gould, 1844
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
*''[[Atrichornis rufescens]]''
*''[[Atrichornis clamosus]]''
}}

'''Scrubbirds''' are [[Shyness|shy]], secretive, ground-dwelling birds  of the family '''Atrichornithidae'''. There are just two [[species]]. The [[rufous scrubbird]] is rare and very restricted in its range, and the [[noisy scrubbird]] is so rare that until 1961 it was thought to be [[extinct]]. Both are native to [[Australia]].

The scrubbird family is ancient and is understood to be most closely related to the [[lyrebird]]s, and probably also the [[bowerbird]]s and [[Australasian treecreeper|treecreepers]]. All four families originated with the great [[corvid radiation]] of the [[Australia-New Guinea]] region.

The population of the [[noisy scrubbird]] was estimated at 40 to 45 birds in 1962. [[Wildlife conservation|Conservation]] efforts succeeded in increasing the population to around 400 birds by the mid-1980s, and they have subsequently been reintroduced to several sites, but remain endangered.  As of 2002, the population had recovered to around 1,200 birds.

==Description==
Birds of both species are about the same size as a [[common starling]] (roughly 20&nbsp;cm long) and cryptically coloured in drab browns and blacks. They occupy dense undergrowth&mdash;the [[rufous scrubbird]] in [[temperate rain forest]]s near the [[Queensland]]-[[New South Wales]] border, the [[noisy scrubbird]] in heaths and scrubby gullies in coastal [[Western Australia]]&mdash;and are adept at scuttling mouse-like under cover to avoid notice.<ref name=EoB>{{cite book |editor=Forshaw, Joseph|author= Smith. G.T.|year=1991|title=Encyclopaedia of Animals: Birds|publisher= Merehurst Press|location=London|pages= 170|isbn= 1-85391-186-0}}</ref> They run fast, but their flight is feeble.

The males' calls, however, are powerful:<ref name=EoB/> ringing and metallic, with a ventriloquial quality, so loud as to be heard from a long distance in heavy scrub and almost painful at close range. Females build a domed nest close to the ground and take sole responsibility for raising the young.

==Species of Atrichornithidae==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Image !! Scientific name !! Common Name!! Distribution
|-
| ||''Atrichornis rufescens''|| [[Rufous scrubbird]]||  north-eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland 
|-
| ||''Atrichornis clamosus''|| [[Noisy scrubbird]]||  east of Albany in Western Australia
|-
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Endemic birds of Australia]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger]]