Cuckoo-shrikes (Campephagidae)
Grey-headed Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina schisticeps) - HBW 10, p. 92
French: Échenilleur de Gray
German: Grayraupenfänger
Spanish: Oruguero Cabecigrís
Other common names: Gray’s/New Guinea/Slaty/Black-tipped Cuckoo-shrike
Taxonomy: Campephaga schisticeps G. R. Gray, 1846, Triton Bay, south-west New Guinea.
Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- schisticeps (G. R. Gray, 1846) - Misool I and NW New Guinea (E to head of Geelvink Bay and Etna Bay; possibly also W Papuan Is (Waigeo, Batanta).
- reichenowi (Neumann, 1917) - N New Guinea from Geelvink Bay E to Sepik Valley.
- poliopsa (Sharpe, 1882) - S New Guinea from R Kaspare E to Astrolabe Mts.
- vittata (Rothschild & Hartert, 1914) - D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago (Goodenough I, FergusonI).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Adult male perched
Locality Tabubil, Papua New Guinea (mainland), New Guinea (ssp poliopsa)
Nik Borrow 18 May 2009 2 years ago 3
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singing, song Locality Kiunga, Papua New Guinea (mainland), New Guinea
dreyernp 21 July 1990 2 years ago 4
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