New Guinea Thornbill

Acanthiza murina (Papuan thornbill) is small, pale-eyed drab thornbill. Head and upperparts are brownish-olive, forehead indistinctly mottled lighter (feathers having dark tips and pale bases); cheek and side of throat mottled light (salt-and-pepper effect), often quite dark-looking lores and ear-coverts; remiges edged pale, with darker centres of tertials; tail with broad blackish subterminal band and pale greyish to whitish tip; dingy pale greyish below, sometimes with buffy wash on underparts; iris whitish to yellowish; bill black or dark brown, pale base of lower madible; legs variably black, dark brown or light brown, sometimes with yellow on soles.(Hoyo 2007)

Song a series of pairs of notes, first higher-pitched than second. Squeaky, slightly raspy but sweet note “see tee to to”, given constantly during foraging and interspersed with harsher scolds and rattles; can sound a bit like a fledgling bird with a “teeyuuk teeyuuk teeyuuk” or “teut-teut” series.

The New Guinea thornbill or Papuan thornbill (Acanthiza murina) is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is found in the New Guinea Highlands.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.