Mangrove Golden Whistler

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Pachycephalidae

Genus

Pachycephala

Subspecies (6)

• Pachycephala melanura dahli

  islands off southeastern New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago

• Pachycephala melanura dammeriana

  Damar (eastern Lesser Sundas)

• Pachycephala melanura melanura

  coastal northwestern Australia (Northwest Cape to northern Kimberley region)

• Pachycephala melanura robusta

  coastal northern Australia (northern Kimberley region to Yeppoon, east-central Queensland coast, including smaller southern, central, and eastern Torres Strait islands)

• Pachycephala melanura spinicaudus

  northwestern (Bintuni Bay, Bird's Neck) and southern New Guinea and offshore islands, northeastern Australia (northwestern Torres Strait islands)

• Pachycephala melanura violetae

  coastal central northern Australia (northeastern Kimberley region to Gulf of Carpentaria)