Black Butcherbird

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Artamidae

Genus

Melloria

eBird Code

blabut1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (5)

• Melloria quoyi alecto

  southern New Guinea including Aru Islands, and northeastern Australia (northwestern Torres Strait islands)

• Melloria quoyi jardini

  northeastern Australia (Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland)

• Melloria quoyi quoyi

  New Guinea, including Raja Ampat Islands (off western New Guinea) and Yapen (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)

• Melloria quoyi rufescens

  northeastern Australia (Wet Tropics region to about Sarina, eastern Queensland)

• Melloria quoyi spaldingi

  Aru Islands (off southwestern New Guinea); northwestern Australia (eastern Kimberley region, northern Western Australia to northern Northern Territory including Tiwi Islands)