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The bird family Petroicidae includes 51 species in 19 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called the Australasian robins. Within the family species are known variously as robins, scrub-robins and ...
Petroicidae is family of the suborder Passeri. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. A. Amalocichla (3 P) D. Drymodes (5 P) E.
Petroica is a genus of Australasian robins, named for their red and pink markings.They are not closely related to the European robins nor the American robins.. The genus was introduced by the English naturalist, William Swainson, in 1829, with the Norfolk robin (Petroica multicolor) as the type species.
Described by Belgian naturalist Auguste Drapiez in 1819, the pink robin is a member of the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. [5] [6] Sibley and Ahlquist's DNA-DNA hybridisation studies placed this group in a Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines, including pardalotes, fairy-wrens, honeyeaters, and crows. [7]
Drymodes is a genus of bird in the family Petroicidae. It was traditionally held to have two species, but molecular and behavioural differences led to the split of the New Guinea populations from the northern scrub robin. The paper by Les Christidis and colleagues was published in 2011 and the IOC adopted the split in 2015: [2]
The mountain robin [2] (Petroica bivittata), also known as subalpine robin, alpine robin or cloud-forest robin, is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. It is found sparsely throughout the New Guinea Highlands. [1] Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subalpine shrubland. [3]
The South Island robin (Petroica australis; also known in Māori as the kakaruwai) [2] is a sparrow-sized bird found only in New Zealand, where it has the status of a protected endemic species.
Described by Italian naturalist Tommaso Salvadori in 1874, the white-rumped robin is a member of the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Sibley and Ahlquist 's DNA-DNA hybridisation studies placed this group in a Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines, including pardalotes , fairy-wrens , and ...