Passeriformes / Acanthizidae / Hylacola

Shy Heathwren

Hylacola cauta

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Calamanthus cautus → Hylacola cauta

Genus transfer — GBIF Backbone Taxonomy uses the former name; AviList 2025 uses the current name.

Reiner Richter · CC_BY_4_0

Hylacola cauta cauta

south-central Australia (Eyre Peninsula and Flinders Ranges to northwestern Victoria and adjacent New South Wales)
Hylacola cauta halmaturina

south-central Australia (Kangaroo Island, off South Australia)
Hylacola cauta macrorhyncha

southeastern Australia (Griffith to Cobar, central New South Wales)
Hylacola cauta whitlocki

semiarid southwestern central Australia

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.