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Vogelkop scrubwren

species of bird

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ1922995 ↗
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The Vogelkop scrubwren (Aethomyias rufescens) is a bird species in the family Acanthizidae. It is endemic to West Papua, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Sericornis but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Aethomyias.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vogelkop scrubwren” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.