Tropical Scrubwren

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Tropical Scrubwren
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Sericornis
Species: S. beccarii
Binomial name
Sericornis beccarii
Salvadori, 1874

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 northern Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.

It is now[when?] considered conspecific with the Large-billed Scrubwren, S. magnirostris.[verification needed]

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