Species profile
Mountain Thornbill
Acanthiza katherina
Quick answer
Rainforests of ne Queensland (Cooktown to Paluma Range)
- Scientific name
- Acanthiza katherina
- Family
- Acanthizidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Acanthiza
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
Recording Mountain Thornbill in your journal
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Related species in Acanthizidae
- Ashy Gerygone (Gerygone cinerea)
- Atherton Scrubwren (Sericornis keri)
- Banded Whiteface (Aphelocephala nigricincta)
- Biak Gerygone (Gerygone hypoxantha)
- Bicolored Mouse Warbler (Crateroscelis nigrorufa)
- Brown Gerygone (Gerygone mouki)
- Brown Thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla)
- Brown-breasted Gerygone (Gerygone ruficollis)