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Photo by James Eaton
Danau, Ranamese, Flores, Indonesia, June 2005

Alternative name: Lesser Sunda Whistler

Pachycephala nudigula

[edit] Identification

19.5cm. A distinctive Whistler:

• Black head
• Deep red bare patch on lower throat
• Black centre of upper-breast
• Yellowish-olive rest of underparts
• Olive upperparts
• Olive rump with yellowish tinge
• Dusky brown upperwings
• Black tail
• Black bill

Females have a grey crown, a greyish-white throat and only a small bare patch which is usually concealed. Juveniles have a yellow throat without a bare patch.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to Sumbawa and Flores in the Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
Common on Flores, rarer on Sumbawa.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 2 subspecies:

• P. n. ilsa:

• Montane forests of Sumbawa (Lesser Sundas)

• P. n. nudigula:

• Montane forests of Flores (Lesser Sundas)

[edit] Habitat

Dry and moist forests and moist montanes. At 400 - 2000m on Flores, 200 - 1730 on Sumbawa.

[edit] Behaviour

Feeds on insects and spiders.
Breeding season from May to July. No other information.
Resident species.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2007. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553422

• List of references

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