Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Silver-crowned Friarbird (Philemon argenticeps) - HBW 13, p. 682
French:
Polochion couronné
German: Weißscheitel-Lederkopf
Spanish: Filemón
Coronado
Taxonomy: Tropidorhynchus
argenticeps Gould, 1840, between King Sound and Port King
GeorgeIV, Kimberley Division, Western Australia.
Nominate
race varies clinally in both size and colour, becoming slightly
larger from N to S and darker from arid areas to more humid ones. In
Northern Territory, proposed races melvillensis (from Melville
I) and alexis (from Alexandria) represent such clinal
variation, and both are merged with nominate. Two subspecies
recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- argenticeps (Gould, 1840) - N Western Australia (Kimberley Division, mainly N & E of Fitzroy R, including many offshore islands) E through Top End of Northern Territory (S to upper reaches of drainage basins of Victoria, Roper, McArthur and Nicholson rivers, and on many offshore islands, including Melville I, Groote Eylandt and Sir Edward Pellew Group) to NW Queensland (SE head of Gulf of Carpentaria and N Selwyn Range).
- kempi Mathews, 1912 - Cape York Peninsula (S to E of line from Weipa to Innisfail), in NE Queensland.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
- No videos available yet
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Silver-crowned Friarbird feeding on grevillia
Locality Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Rhonda Hansch 21 June 2008 20 weeks ago 3.8 -
Perched
Locality Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 18 July 2008 1 year ago 3.2 -
Single bird feeding in pine-tree
Locality Atherton, Queensland, Australia (ssp kempi )
Tom Tarrant 2 January 2009 2 years ago 3
- No sound recordings available yet
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