Scrub robin is part of the common name for species of birds in three different genera in two families, and may refer to:
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Muscicapidae
The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia), with the exception of several vagrants and two species, bluethroat (''Luscinia svecica'') and north ...
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Cercotrichas
''Cercotrichas'' is a genus of medium-sized insectivorous birds. They were formerly considered to be in the thrush (bird), thrush family, (Turdidae), but are more often now treated as part of the Old World flycatcher family, (Muscicapidae).
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Kalahari scrub robin (''Cercotrichas paena'')
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Black scrub robin (''Cercotrichas podobe'')
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Rufous-tailed scrub robin (''Cercotrichas galactotes'')
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Brown-backed scrub robin (''Cercotrichas hartlaubi'')
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White-browed scrub robin (''Cercotrichas leucophrys'')
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Tychaedon''
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Karoo scrub robin (''Tychaedon coryphoeus'')
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Brown scrub robin
The brown scrub robin (''Tychaedon signata'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Eswatini, Mozambique and, South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical dry or moist forest
A forest is an ecosystem charact ...
(''Tychaedon signata'')
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Forest scrub robin
The forest scrub robin (''Tychaedon leucosticta'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is disjunctly present throughout the African tropical rainforest. This species was formerly placed in the genus '' Cercotrichas''.
Four subsp ...
(''Tychaedon leucosticta'')
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Bearded scrub robin
The bearded scrub robin (''Tychaedon quadrivirgata''), also known as the eastern bearded scrub robin, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in eastern and southern Africa. This species was formerly placed in the genus '' Ce ...
(''Tychaedon quadrivirgata'')
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Miombo scrub robin
The miombo scrub robin (''Tychaedon barbata'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. This species was formerly placed in the ge ...
(''Tychaedon barbata'')
*Family
Petroicidae
The bird family Petroicidae includes 51 species in 19 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called th ...
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Drymodes
''Drymodes'' is a genus of birds in the family Petroicidae. It was traditionally held to have two species, but molecular and behavioural differences led to the split of the New Guinea populations from the northern scrub robin. The paper by Les C ...
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Southern scrub robin
The southern scrub robin (''Drymodes brunneopygia'') is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae.
It is endemism, endemic to Australia, where it occurs in mallee (habit), mallee and heathland in the semi-arid southern parts of the continent, e ...
(''Drymodes brunneopygia'')
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Northern scrub robin
The northern scrub robin (''Drymodes superciliaris'') is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. It is found in northern Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. It was found to be genetically distinct from the Papuan scrub robin, ...
(''Drymodes superciliaris'')
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Papuan scrub robin (''Drymodes beccarii'')
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