Whistlers (Pachycephalidae)

Maroon-backed Whistler (Coracornis raveni) - HBW 12, p. 411

French: Siffleur à dos marron German: Rotrücken-Dickkopf Spanish: Silbador Dorsicastaño
Other common names: Rano Rano/Raven’s Whistler

Taxonomy: Coracornis raveni Riley, 1918, Rano Rano, central Sulawesi.
Often maintained in genus Pachycephala, but colour pattern unique within family; differs further in e.g. longer rictal bristles, nostril shape, shape of primaries and rectrices, and semi-decomposed ends of webs of rectrices. Monotypic.

Distribution: Mountains of Sulawesi.