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title: "Spotted Scrubwren"
description: "Sericornis maculatus — Vogels. The spotted scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus) is a bird species native to coastal southern Australia, from Adelaide westwards to Shark Bay in Western Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/spotted-scrubwren
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Spotted Scrubwren

> Sericornis maculatus — Vogels. The spotted scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus) is a bird species native to coastal southern Australia, from  Adelaide westwards to Shark Bay in Western Australia.

- Scientific name: *Sericornis maculatus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1295
- iNaturalist taxon: [1444429](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1444429)

## Names

- en: Spotted Scrubwren
- fr: Séricorne maculé

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1257)

## Summary

The spotted scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus) is a bird species native to coastal southern Australia, from  Adelaide westwards to Shark Bay in Western Australia. It was formerly considered conspecific with the white-browed scrubwren, and is known to hybridize with that species where their ranges overlap in the Adelaide area. Genetic analysis in a 2018 study of the family found that this taxon was more divergent from the white-browed scrubwren than the Tasmanian or Atherton scrubwrens and hence proposed its reclassification as a species. It was reclassified as a species in 2019.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_scrubwren

## Photo

![Spotted Scrubwren](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spotted-scrubwren/medium.jpg)

Photo: julie burgher · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/334808807

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spotted-scrubwren?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).