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The Yellow thornbill (Acanthiza nana) is a bird found in Australia. Woods and scrub along the east coast of Australia. It eats insects and other small invertebrates and seeds and nuts. The IUCN Red List lists it as Least Concern.

🏡 Where the Yellow thornbill lives

Woods and scrub along the east coast of Australia.

🍽️ What it eats

• 🐛 Insects & bugs80%
• 🌰 Seeds & nuts20%

A rough guide to its diet over a year. Source: EltonTraits (Wilman et al. 2014).

Conservation status

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Recorded by Richard Boon (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), xeno-canto XC772335. Trimmed to a few seconds.

Questions about the Yellow thornbill

Where does the Yellow thornbill live?

The Yellow thornbill lives in Australia. Woods and scrub along the east coast of Australia.

What does the Yellow thornbill eat?

insects and other small invertebrates (about 80%), seeds and nuts (about 20%). These are rough shares of its diet over a year, from the EltonTraits database.

Is the Yellow thornbill endangered?

There are plenty of these birds. Its IUCN Red List category is Least Concern.

More birds from Australia & Oceania

• Northern rockhopper penguin
• Cape gannet
• Sooty albatross
• Australian painted-snipe
• Sunset lorikeet
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Sources: IUCN Red List (via Wikidata), EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014), GBIF sightings for countries, Wikipedia. Last updated 2026-10-19.