Habitat and Behaviour
The three live in distinct habitats: the Southern Emu-wren preferring marshes and heathland, the Mallee Emu-wren inhabiting spinifex understory in Mallee woodland, and the Rufous-crowned Emu-wren dwelling in spinifex in desert areas. All are fairly secretive and hard to spot, living in low shrub cover. Emu-wrens are predominantly insectivorous, but supplement their diet with seeds. Their furtive behaviour and brown colour has resulted in them being mistaken for bush mice.
Read more about this topic: Emu-wren
Famous quotes containing the words habitat and/or behaviour:
“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behaviour by his attitude towards the result of the behaviour arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)