Well attestedNamed from the place
King Island brown thornbill
noun · first attested 20th century
One island's thornbill may be down to a few dozen birds in scraps of scrub.
A critically endangered brown thornbill found only on King Island in Bass Strait.
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King Island brown thornbill
The subspecies was described from King Island, between Tasmania and mainland Australia, where clearing has left it only fragments of wet forest. Surveys since 2000 have found so few birds that it ranks among the most endangered on the continent.
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