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Key Identification Features [edit]
22-26 cm. Skulking passerine with short, rounded wings, long, rounded tail and characteristically triangular head profile. Adult dark brown above with faint dark barring and contrasting rufous wings. Grey-brown below merging to rufous on vent and undertail-coverts and cream on lower breast. Male has diagnostic blackish triangle on throat with bold whitish stripes at sides. Female has whitish throat. Juvenile unbarred above with rich, buff foreneck and breast.
Range: Continent, country or more local rang. Resident or months present [edit]
Atrichornis clamosus is found on the south coast of Western Australia, Australia.
Habitat: estuary, rainforest, mountains, desert etc [edit]
Its preferred habitat contains dense clumps of sedges, shrubs or piles of debris for nesting cover, interspersed with small, open areas with a thick accumulation of leaf-litter and a well-developed litter fauna for feeding.
Subspecies: [edit]
Western Bristlebird Dasyornis longirostris lacks dark barring and has pale scallops on back and breast.
Calls: [edit]
Male calls powerful, penetrating and directional.
Song: [edit]
Main territorial song a sweet, descending crescendo, falling and accelerating into ear-splitting climax.