Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Myiagra

Shining Flycatcher

Myiagra alecto

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

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Myiagra alecto alecto

northern Moluccas
Myiagra alecto chalybeocephala

New Guinea including western Papuan and Cenderawasih Bay islands, northeastern satellite islands, and Bismarck Archipelago from Manus eastward through New Britain and satellites
Myiagra alecto longirostris

Tanimbar Islands (Arafura Sea)
Myiagra alecto lucida

D'Entrecasteaux and Louisiade archipelagos (off southeastern New Guinea)
Myiagra alecto manumudari

Manam Island (New Guinea)
Myiagra alecto melvillensis

northwestern Australia (Kimberley region, northern Western Australia, to northwestern Queensland)
Myiagra alecto rufolateralis

Aru Islands (southwest of New Guinea)
Myiagra alecto wardelli

southeastern New Guinea, northeastern Australia (Torres Strait Islands, eastern Queensland southward to northeastern New South Wales)

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.