What is "bristlebird"

n. any of three species of passerine birds in the genus ''Dasyornis'' endemic to Australia.

"Dasyornis" ''redirects here. This was also used by Richard Lydekker for the prehistoric pseudotooth bird genus Dasornis in error.''

The bristlebirds are a family, Dasyornithidae, of passerine bird. There are three species in one genus, Dasyornis. The family is endemic to Australia. The genus Dasyornis was sometimes placed in the Acanthizidae or, as a subfamily, Dasyornithinae, along with the Acanthizinae and Pardalotinae, within an expanded Pardalotidae, before being elevated to full family level by Christidis & Boles (2008).