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Braddon has or used to have 26 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the King Island Brown Thornbill.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

King Island Brown Thornbill

Acanthiza pusilla archibaldi

Status: Endangered

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Acanthiza pusilla archibaldi has greater than 80% of its range within Braddon

This subspecies is a small bird with russet-brown forehead with indistinct pale scalloping, red eyes, olive-brown upperparts, a grey-brown tail with a dark band near the end, and off-white underparts with dark streaks on the chin, throat and breast. Sexes appear the same, but males are possibly larger than females. It is 9 to 11.5 centimetres long and weighs 7 grams. There is no information about the social structure of this subspecies, but populations of Brown Thornbills elsewhere, on mainland Australia and mainland Tasmania, usually occur singly, in twos or in small family groups; as two birds were caught together in 1971, this also probably reflects the social structure of this subspecies.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Adverse fire regimes