Helmeted Friarbird

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Philemon

eBird Code

helfri1

Taxonomy Changes

Vocalizations

Subspecies (10)

• Philemon buceroides ammitophilus

  central northern Australia (Arnhem Land sandstone, northern Northern Territory)

• Philemon buceroides aruensis

  Aru Islands (southwest of New Guinea)

• Philemon buceroides buceroides

  eastern Lesser Sundas (Sawu, Rote, Timor, Semau, and Wetar)

• Philemon buceroides gordoni

  north-central Australia (coastal northern Northern Territory, Tiwi islands)

• Philemon buceroides jobiensis

  Yapen Island and northern New Guinea

• Philemon buceroides neglectus

  western Lesser Sundas (Lombok to Flores)

• Philemon buceroides novaeguineae

  western Papuan islands, Vogelkop Peninsula (northwestern New Guinea) and southern and southeastern New Guinea

• Philemon buceroides subtuberosus

  Trobriand Islands and D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago (off southeastern New Guinea)

• Philemon buceroides tagulanus

  Tagula Island (Louisiade Archipelago, off southeastern New Guinea)

• Philemon buceroides yorki

  northeastern Australia (Torres Strait islands, Cape York Peninsula southward to St. Lawrence, northern Queensland)