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Photo by Neil Fifer
Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia, October 2003

Meliphaga gracilis

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Asia and Australasia
Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Moluccas, New Guinea
Australia: Queensland

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• M. g. stevensi:

• Northern slope of mountains of south-eastern New Guinea

• M. g. cinereifrons:

• Lowlands of south-eastern New Guinea (west to Hall Sound); Sariba Island

• M. g. gracilis:

• Southern New Guinea, Arus, islands in southern Torres Strait and Cape York Peninsula

• M. g. imitatrix:

• North-eastern Queensland (Mossman to Burdekin River)

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

[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. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID