Australasian Robins
Petroicidae
The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 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 the Australasian robins. Within the family the species are known not only as robins but as scrub-robins and flycatchers. They are, however, only distantly related to the Old World family Muscicapidae (to which...
16 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 51 known species
Typical Australasian Robins
genusPetroica
Yellow Robins
genusEopsaltria
Typical Flyrobins
genusMicroeca
Hooded and Dusky Robins
genusMelanodryas
Thicket Robins
genusHeteromyias
Australo-Papuan Scrub Robins
genusDrymodes
White-browed Robins and Allies
genusPoecilodryas
Cryptomicroeca
genusCryptomicroeca
Olive and Yellow-legged Flyrobins
genusKempiella
Pale-eyed Robins
genusPachycephalopsis
Devioeca
genusDevioeca
Monachella
genusMonachella
Plesiodryas
genusPlesiodryas
Ground-Robins
genusAmalocichla
Eugerygone
genusEugerygone
Leucophantes
genusLeucophantes
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 14149.