Endangered
Western Bristlebird
Dasyornis longirostris
Western Bristlebird is a perching bird in the family Dasyornithidae (order Passeriformes) — Dasyornis longirostris, recorded as Endangered and tied to Australia.
Appearance
It has a shorter tail than other bristlebirds, yet it is still quite long tail is rufous, with darker brown stripes. Its body is rufous with dark brown under-surface feathers, giving it a scalloped look. It has a red eye, and the front of neck and face is off-white.
Published measurements include mass about 3.95.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the coastal heaths of western Australia (east and west of Albany).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Western Bristlebird is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Western Bristlebird, Wikidata item Q1067146. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
