Black-winged Monarch

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Monarchidae

Genus

Monarcha

eBird Code

blwmon1

Subspecies (4)

• Monarcha frater canescens

  breeds northeastern Australia (northeastern Cape York Peninsula, Mount Carbine, Wet Tropics, northern Queensland); some winter in New Guinea

• Monarcha frater frater

  mountains of Bird's Head Peninsula (western New Guinea)

• Monarcha frater kunupi

  Weyland Mountains (central New Guinea)

• Monarcha frater periophthalmicus

  mountains of eastern and southeastern New Guinea