Black Berrypecker

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Melanocharitidae

Genus

Melanocharis

eBird Code

blaber1

Subspecies (4)

• Melanocharis nigra chloroptera

  southern New Guinea (Mimika River to Fly River), including Aru Islands (off southwestern New Guinea)

• Melanocharis nigra nigra

  western New Guinea, including Misool and Salawati (Raja Ampat Islands, off western New Guinea)

• Melanocharis nigra pallida

  Waigeo (off western New Guinea)

• Melanocharis nigra unicolor

  northern and eastern New Guinea including Mios Num and Yapen (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)