Noisy Scrub-Bird

Apperance
The Noisy Scrub bird is small bird with short round wings, a graduated tail and strong pointed beak, brown above with a dark cross barring from its head to tail. The underside graduates in colour from pale buff to rust near its vent. The noisy scrub-bird has an extraordinary voice and can be heard calling loudly for a long time. It has a white throat above a black upper breast forms an inverted V shape. It has long legs and tail, and its wings are short and rounded.

Weight
22222

Length
The Noisy Scrub-bird is 21cm long of which 10cm is tail.

Habitat
The noisy-scrub bird spends more time on the ground than flying and has a territory of around 15 acres. The male defends its territory with the loud calls and imitations of other birds which give the bird its common name. A domed nest is built in shrubs close to the ground of rushes and decayed wood. The scrub-bird's habitat is dense coastal shrubland, including damp and densely vegetated gullies draining seaward and stunted gm trees on the flat heathland between the gullies.

Eating and Diet Habits
It eats frogs, lizards, insects, such as crickets and cockroaches, and seeds.

Predators
This bird is a food to many predators mainly feral cats and it is also a food for foxes.

Breeding Habits
 A domed nest is built in shrubs close to the ground of rushes and decayed wood. Breeding occurs in September or October and the female incubates the one or two eggs for approximately five weeks. Young fledge within four weeks.

Locations
 In 1961, the scrub-bird was rediscovered by a fisherman near Mt. Gardner in Two Peoples Bay, in an area that was slated for development. The planned development was relocated and the area was turned into a reserve. Under the protection enacted after its rediscovery, the bird naturally spread to a new site at the Angove River in 1979. In addition, populations were translocated to three new sites beginning in the 1980s: Mt. Manypeaks, Denmark-Walpole, and Mt. Taylor.

Numbers
In 1992, 291 singing males had been surveyed.

Problems

• The introduction of cats to the area.
• In addition to several years of drought were thought to have wiped it out. 
• Burning of forest and shrublands to support cattle grazing had eliminated most of the bird's habitat.
• These fires reduced the species' invertebrate food supply. The land around Mount Gardener, with its resident Scrub Bird population was protected from fire by its rough terrain.  
• The species remains vulnerable to a single large wildfire.

Solutions

• The area in which the Noisy Scrub Bird was rediscovered was in an area scheduled for town development. Plans were abandoned and instead the Two Peoples Bay Wildlife Sanctuary was established.
• Detailed ecological study of the Scrub Bird followed with the result that the species has been successfully translocated to several new sites.
• inform the public about threatened species issues.
• encourage habitat retention and restoration.
• encourage the community-based collection of more information about the species and its habitat.
• ongoing habitat management.  
• genetic assessment of all populations.
• support your local environment groups.
• raise money for the rehabilitation of sites for noisy scrub bird.
• learn more about endangered animals, particularly those native to your area.
• be a responsible pet owner so they do not impact on Noisy Scrub Bird or other wildlife.
• help in the eradication of foxes, cats and rabbits.
• protect remnant native vegetation under Heritage Agreement and by excluding stock .
• revegetate cleared land with indigenous plants.