Grey Whistler

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Pachycephalidae

Genus

Pachycephala

eBird Code

grywhi2

Vocalizations

Subspecies (7)

• Pachycephala simplex brunnescens

  southeastern New Guinea, including D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago (off southeastern New Guinea)

• Pachycephala simplex griseiceps

  New Guinea from Bird's Head Peninsula and Bird's Neck to southern lowlands, Trans-Fly, and southern southeastern peninsula eastward to Port Moresby, including Raja Ampat Islands (off western New Guinea) and Aru Islands

• Pachycephala simplex jobiensis

  north-central New Guinea, including Yapen and Meos Num Islands (Cenderawasih Bay)

• Pachycephala simplex peninsulae

  Wet Tropics and eastern Cape York Peninsula (northeastern Queensland, Australia)

• Pachycephala simplex rufipennis

  Kai Islands (Kai Kecil and Kai Besar)

• Pachycephala simplex simplex

  central northern Australia (northern Northern Territory, Tiwi islands, and Groote Eylandt)

• Pachycephala simplex sudestensis

  Tagula (Louisiade Archipelago, off southeastern New Guinea)