Rufous-crowned Emuwren
A species of Emuwrens Scientific name : Stipiturus ruficeps Genus : Emuwrens
Rufous-crowned Emuwren, A species of Emuwrens
Botanical name: Stipiturus ruficeps
Genus: Emuwrens
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Description General Info
Description
The rufous-crowned emu-wren is the smallest and most brightly coloured of the three emu-wren species. The adult male has reddish upperparts with faint streaks, with a prominently rufous crown and grey-brown wings. It has a bright sky blue throat, upper chest, lores and ear coverts. The lores and ear coverts, and chest border are streaked with black. The tail is double the body length, and is composed of six filamentous feathers, the central two of which are longer than the lateral ones. The underparts are buff. The bill, feet and eyes are brown. The female resembles the male but lacks much of the blue plumage and redder crown. Its throat is a yellow buff, and it has some blue-tinged streaked ear coverts. Its bill is pale brown. 
Size
15 cm
Feeding Habits
Rufous-crowned Emuwren primarily consumes insects, foraging through spinifex and shrubs close to the ground with a hop-search and gleaning technique, unique to its habitat.
Habitat
The rufous-crowned Emuwren thrives in warm-temperate to subtropical arid zones, predominantly within Triodia hummock grasslands. Its preferred environments feature tall, dense stands of Triodia vegetation on various landscapes such as sand dunes, swales, sand plains, and rocky hills. These habitats are often interspersed with sparse mallee eucalypts or low shrubs, offering the necessary shelter and resources for the rufous-crowned Emuwren.
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Distribution Area
The rufous-crowned emu-wren is found across the arid interior of northern central Australia, from the Simpson Desert in the southeast and Barkly Tableland in the northeast, across the centre to the Western Australian coast and the Pilbara in the northwest. There is also an isolated population found to the east in south-western Queensland bounded by Dajarra, Winton, Fermoy and Boulia. It lives in spinifex shrubland.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Perching birds Family
Australasian wrens Genus
Emuwrens Species
Rufous-crowned Emuwren 
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