Pardalotidae

The Pardalotidae, also known as the Australasian warblers, are a family of passerine birds which include gerygones, thornbills, pardalotes, and scrubwrens. The Pardalotidae consists of small to medium passerine birds, with a total length varying between 8 and 19 cm. They have short rounded wings, slender bills, long legs, and a short tail. Most species have olive, grey, or brown plumage, although some have patches of a brighter yellow. The smallest species of pardalotid, and indeed the smallest Australian passerine, is the Weebill, the largest is the Pilotbird

Distribution
Acanthizids are native to Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the south-west Pacific. Most species are found in Australia and New Guinea, with Australia having 35 endemic species and New Guinea 15. A single species is found in Vanuatu, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, and three species occur in the New Zealand region, including endemic species in the Chatham Islands and Norfolk Island. In Asia two species are restricted to Indonesia and another is found in the Philippines and on mainland Asia. Most species are not migratory, with the exception of the gerygones. The family occupies a range of habitats from rainforests to arid deserts.

Behaviour
Most species are terrestrial, feeding primarily on insects, although also eating some seeds. In particular the whitefaces consume large numbers of seeds, and other species will take fruits. The secretions of sap-sucking insects are favoured by some species, as are the insects themselves. Some species are less terrestrial, such as the Weebill, which forages in the treetops, or the rock-dwelling Rockwarbler. Unusually for birds of their size, they lay only one or two eggs in a clutch, possibly because they are relatively long-lived, with many species living to over ten years of age in the wild.

Conservation status
Most taxa are considered as least concern. One species - the Lord Howe Gerygone (Gerygone insularis) - became extinct by rat predation in the early 1930s. The Norfolk Island Gerygone (Gerygone modesta) is vulnerable, and the Chestnut-breasted Whiteface (Aphelocephala pectoralis) is regarded as near threatened.

Taxonomy
Following the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy (1990) they were previously regarded as subfamily Acanthizinae within the Pardalotidae family. However, current revisions (Christidis & Boles, 1994; Schodde & Mason 1999) don't support this arrangement. The Dasyornithidae (which include the bristlebirds) are variously seen either as subfamily Dasyornithinae within the Acanthizidae or Pardalotidae family or as own family (Schodde & Mason 1999).

Genera
The Acanthizidae family consists of the two subfamilies Sericornithinae and Acanthizinae (Schodde & Mason 1999), 14 genera, 63 species and 196 taxa.

Genus Pardalotus

 * Red-browed Pardalote, Pardalotus rubricatus
 * Striated Pardalote, Pardalotus striatus
 * Spotted Pardalote, Pardalotus punctatus
 * Forty-spotted Pardalote, Pardalotus quadragintus

Genus Pachycare

 * Goldenface, Pachycare flavogriseum

Genus Oreoscopus

 * Fernwren, Oreoscopus gutturalis

Genus Gerygone

 * Yellow-bellied Gerygone, Gerygone chrysogaster
 * Brown Gerygone, Gerygone mouki
 * Plain Gerygone, Gerygone inornata
 * White-throated Gerygone, Gerygone olivacea
 * Green-backed Gerygone, Gerygone chloronota
 * Fairy Gerygone, Gerygone palpebrosa
 * Golden-bellied Gerygone, Gerygone sulphurea
 * Rufous-sided Gerygone, Gerygone dorsalis
 * Large-billed Gerygone, Gerygone magnirostris
 * Biak Gerygone, Gerygone hypoxantha
 * Fan-tailed Gerygone, Gerygone flavolateralis
 * Dusky Gerygone, Gerygone tenebrosa
 * Mangrove Gerygone, Gerygone levigaster
 * Western Gerygone, Gerygone fusca
 * Brown-breasted Gerygone, Gerygone ruficollis
 * Lord Howe Gerygone, Gerygone insularis'''
 * Norfolk Gerygone, Gerygone modesta
 * Grey Gerygone, Gerygone igata
 * Chatham Gerygone, Gerygone albofrontata

Genus Acanthornis

 * Scrubtit, Acanthornis magna

Genus Aphelocephala

 * Southern Whiteface, Aphelocephala leucopsis
 * Chestnut-breasted Whiteface, Aphelocephala pectoralis
 * Banded Whiteface, Aphelocephala nigricincta

Genus Acanthiza

 * Striated Thornbill, Acanthiza lineata
 * Yellow Thornbill, Acanthiza nana
 * Ashy Thornbill / Ashy Gerygone, Acanthiza cinerea
 * New Guinea Thornbill, Acanthiza murina
 * Yellow-rumped Thornbill, Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
 * Inland Thornbill, Acanthiza apicalis
 * Tasmanian Thornbill, Acanthiza ewingii
 * Mountain Thornbill, Acanthiza katherina
 * Brown Thornbill, Acanthiza pusilla
 * Slaty-backed Thornbill, Acanthiza robustirostris
 * Slender-billed Thornbill, Acanthiza iredalei
 * Chestnut-rumped Thornbill, Acanthiza uropygialis
 * Western Thornbill, Acanthiza inornata
 * Buff-rumped Thornbill, Acanthiza reguloides

Genus Smicrornis

 * Weebill, Smicrornis brevirostris

Genus Pycnoptilus

 * Pilotbird, Pycnoptilus floccosus

Genus Pyrrholaemus

 * Redthroat, Pyrrholaemus brunneus

Genus Chthonicola

 * Speckled Warbler, Chthonicola sagittatus

Genus Hylacola

 * Chestnut-rumped Heathwren, Hylacola pyrrhopygia
 * Shy Heathwren, Hylacola cauta

Genus Calamanthus

 * Striated Fieldwren, Calamanthus fuliginosus
 * Western Fieldwren, Calamanthus montanellus
 * Rufous Fieldwren, Calamanthus campestris

Genus Origma

 * Rusty Mouse-warbler, Crateroscelis murina
 * Mountain Mouse-warbler, Crateroscelis robusta
 * Rockwarbler, Origma solitaria

Genus Sericornis

 * Yellow-throated Scrubwren, Sericornis citreogularis
 * Pale-billed Scrubwren, Sericornis spilodera
 * Bicoloured Mouse-warbler, Sericornis nigrorufa
 * Grey-green Scrubwren, Sericornis arfakianus
 * Papuan Scrubwren, Sericornis papuensis
 * Vogelkop Scrubwren, Sericornis rufescens
 * Buff-faced Scrubwren, Sericornis perspicillatus
 * Tasmanian Scrubwren, Sericornis humilis
 * White-browed Scrubwren, Sericornis frontalis
 * Atherton Scrubwren, Sericornis keri
 * Large-billed Scrubwren, Sericornis magnirostra
 * Tropical Scrubwren, Sericornis beccarii
 * Perplexing Scrubwren, Sericornis virgatus
 * Large Scrubwren, Sericornis nouhuysi