Wild Bird Wednesday 695 - White-Browed Scrubwren

The White-Browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis) is the most common and widespread of Australia's five species of Scrubwren. Its range extends from northern Queensland, in a broad coastal band through South Australia to the mid Western Australian coast, and Tasmania.  Of course this incudes Werribee Sewage Plant!

This individual bird is actually reasonably well known due to the distinctive, but atypical,  patch of white feathers on its head.  This patch due to leucism, a condition causing a loss of pigment in feathers that makes them appear white.  This bird is regularly seen in the salt-marsh area around the hide at the mouth of the little river.

White-browed Scrubwrens feed mostly on insects, and I think this bird is carrying a beetle larva of some kind.  

As a species, they are fast moving and very active: these pictures came from a single burst when, finally, this individual sat still and in the open.

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