Whistlers (Pachycephalidae)
White-breasted Whistler (Pachycephala lanioides) - HBW 12, p. 429
French: Siffleur à bavette blanche
German: Weißbrust-Dickkopf
Spanish: Silbador Pechiblanco
Other common names: White-bellied Whistler(!), White-bellied/Shrike-like Thickhead
Taxonomy: Pachycephala Lanioides Gould, 1840, Derby, Western Australia, Australia.
Part of a species group that also includes the superspecies P. griseonota, P. rufiventris, P. leucogastra, P. monacha and P. arctitorquis. Birds from R De Grey area of Western Australia coast described as race bulleri, but considered inseparable from carnarvoni. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- lanioides Gould, 1840 - N Western Australia (coast of W Kimberley from S of Admiralty Gulf S to Eighty Mile Beach).
- carnarvoni (Mathews, 1913) - Pilbara coast from Eighty Mile Beach S to Carnarvon, in NW Western Australia.
- fretorum De Vis, 1889 - extreme NE Western Australia (Cambridge Gulf) and coast of Northern Territory (including islands of Bathurst, Melville and Groote Eylandt) E to SW Cape York Peninsula (NW Queensland).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Female foraging on the mud
Locality Broome Bird Observatory, Broome, Western Australia, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 22 August 2010 38 weeks ago 3.5 -
Female (one of 2) feeding on crabs or mudskippers in mud. Male was calling nearby.
Locality Karumba, Queensland, Australia (ssp fretorum )
Tom Tarrant 9 August 2010 1 year ago 3.5 -
Male perched in mangrove
Locality Broome Bird Observatory, Broome, Western Australia, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 22 August 2010 38 weeks ago 3.4
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