Golden Monarch

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Monarchidae

Genus

Carterornis

eBird Code

golmon1

Subspecies (9)

• Carterornis chrysomela aruensis

  southern New Guinea, including Aru Islands (off southwestern New Guinea)

• Carterornis chrysomela aurantiacus

  northern New Guinea (Cenderawasih Bay to Astrolabe Bay and Ramu River)

• Carterornis chrysomela chrysomela

  New Hanover and New Ireland (northeastern Bismarck Archipelago)

• Carterornis chrysomela kordensis

  Misool (Raja Ampat Islands, off western New Guinea) and Biak (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)

• Carterornis chrysomela melanonotus

  northwestern New Guinea, including Raja Ampat Islands (off western New Guinea)

• Carterornis chrysomela nitidus

  eastern and southeastern New Guinea, including Louisiade Archipelago (off southeastern New Guinea)

• Carterornis chrysomela pulcherrimus

  Dyaul (northeastern Bismarck Archipelago)

• Carterornis chrysomela tabarensis

  Tabar Group (northeastern Bismarck Archipelago)

• Carterornis chrysomela whitneyorum

  Lihir Group (northeastern Bismarck Archipelago)