Hooded Robin

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Petroicidae

Genus

Melanodryas

eBird Code

hoorob1

Subspecies (4)

• Melanodryas cucullata cucullata

  southeastern Australia (southeastern Queensland to Yorke Peninsula, South Australia)

• Melanodryas cucullata melvillensis

  north-central Australia (Tiwi Islands, off Northern Territory); possibly extinct, last confirmed record 1992)

• Melanodryas cucullata picata

  northern Australia (Kimberley region, northern Western Australia eastward to northern Queensland, and southward to northwestern New South Wales)

• Melanodryas cucullata westralensis

  southern Australia (Pilbara region, central Western Australia to southwestern Australia eastward to southern Northern Territory and Eyre Peninsula)