Whistlers (Pachycephalidae)
Whitehead (Mohoua albicilla) - HBW 12, p. 435
French: Mohoua à tête blanche
German: Weißköpfchen
Spanish: Mohoua Cabeciblanco
Other common names: Popokatea
Taxonomy: Fringilla albicilla Lesson, 1830, Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand.
Sometimes treated as conspecific with M. ochrocephala. Monotypic.
Distribution: New Zealand: North I (S of Mt Pirongia and Te Aroha, including Mt Egmont and axial mountain system from East Cape S to Cook Strait), Little Barrier I, Arid I and Kapiti I.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male in a tree preening and calling, then a female in a bush near a building Locality Tiritiri Matangi Island, Hauraki Gulf, North Island, New Zealand (Monotypic species)
Brooke Clibbon 5 November 2005 5 years ago 22 sec 4 -
A male in a tree preening and calling, then a female in a bush near a building Locality Tiritiri Matangi Island, Hauraki Gulf, North Island, New Zealand (Monotypic species)
Brooke Clibbon 5 November 2005 5 years ago 22 sec 3
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Female Whitehead - an endemic bird of New Zealand, found in the North Island only.
Locality Tiritiri Matangi Island, Hauraki Gulf, North Island, New Zealand
Glenda Rees 21 May 2011 26 min ago ADDED TODAY! 5 -
A bird on a bush
Locality Tiritiri Matangi Island, Hauraki Gulf, North Island, New Zealand
Aleix Comas 15 October 2001 2 years ago 2.7
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Call Locality Pureora Forest Park, North Island, New Zealand
herve jacob 30 November 2011 5 weeks ago 3
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