Fernbird

Poodytes is a genus of passerine birds in the grassbird family Locustellidae.

A molecular phylogenetic study of the grassbird family Locustellidae published in 2018 found that some of the genera, as then defined, were non-monophyletic. In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, five species were moved from Megalurus to the resurrected genus Poodytes.

The genus contains the following species:


 * Fly River Grassbird (Poodytes albolimbatusa)
 * Spinifex-bird (Poodytes carteri)
 * †Chatham Fernbird (Poodytes rufescens)
 * New Zealand Fernbird (Poodytes punctatus)
 * Little Grassbird (Poodytes gramineus)