Australian Golden Whistler

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Pachycephalidae

Genus

Pachycephala

Subspecies (7)

• Pachycephala pectoralis contempta

  Lord Howe Island (east of Australia)

• Pachycephala pectoralis fuliginosa

  south-central Australia (southwestern South Australia eastward to southeastern South Australia and southwestern New South Wales)

• Pachycephala pectoralis glaucura

  Tasmania and Flinders Island (Bass Strait)

• Pachycephala pectoralis occidentalis

  southwestern Australia (Shark Bay to Eucla)

• Pachycephala pectoralis pectoralis

  eastern Australia (Wet Tropics region, northern Queensland, southward to Hunter River, New South Wales)

• Pachycephala pectoralis xanthoprocta

  Norfolk Island (east of Australia)

• Pachycephala pectoralis youngi

  breeds southeastern Australia (central New South Wales to southwestern Victoria); winters to north