Southern Emuwren

Stipiturus malachurus

Walkerville South, S Vic IMG_6633 20190315 - malachurus adult male: blue bib & eyebrow, white streaking on ear-coverts.
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 Notes: Largest; loosly-barbed, longest-tailed emuwren. Boldly streaked upperparts. Male: rufous
forehead; sky-blue eyebrow & bib; unlike other emuwrens, blue bib does not extend to earcoverts.
Female: no blue. Juvenile male: hint of blue bib; juvenile female: subdued streaking of upperparts.
Nominate ssp malachurus male short eyebrow. Ssp westernensis olive-grey back, male has long
blue eyebrows down to lores; Sedentary. Heaths w. grasstrees, banksias; lignum; scrubby thickets.

Range from Morcombe©(modified)