An Australian songbird of the logrunner family, with a wedge-shaped bill, long tail, and upright crest.
楔嘴鸟
Sphenostoma cristatum, family Orthonychidae
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Seeing any of the whipbirds, wedgebills, and jewel-babblers can be a challenge to the observer.
Woodcreeper bills vary, however, from the long scimitar-shaped beak of the scythebill, half as long as the bird itself, to the short beak of the wedgebill, with its slightly upcurved lower mandible.
Australian whipbirds and wedgebills have eggs that are light blue with black scribbles very boldly marking them.
More than 100 species of birds have been recorded here, including fairy wrens, finches, grass wrens and wedgebills.
This volume continues coverage of the passerines and provides detailed descriptions of 107 species, including the pardalotes, gerygones, thornbills, robins, babblers, wedgebills, quail-thrushes, whistlers and shrike-thrushes.