From Opus
Alternative name: Schlegel's Whistler
- Pachycephala schlegelii
[edit] Identification
15 - 16.5cm.
Male
- Black head
- Yellow collar on hindneck
- White throat
- Dark olive-green upperparts
- Black upperwing and tail
- Black breast connected with black of nape and head
- Yellow rest of underparts, partly washed orange
Female
- Grey head
- Whitish throat with dusky mottling
- Grey upper breast
- Olive-green band on lower breast, rest of underparts yellow
Juveniles have a reddish-chestnut plumage.
[edit] Similar species
Very similar to pectoralis subspecies of Golden Whistler but no range overlap. Female looks similar like Lorentz's Whistler.
[edit] Distribution
Endemic to New Guinea.
Common to abundant in parts of its range.
[edit] Taxonomy
Three subspecies recognized:
- P. s. schlegelii in the mountains of the Vogelkop and Bomberai peninsula and the Wandammen Mountains in northwest New Guinea
- P. s. cyclopum in the Cyclops Mountains in north-central New Guinea
- P. s. obscurior in the mountain ranges from the Weyland mountains east to the Huon Peninsula
Formerly considered conspecific with Lorentz's Whistler but occurs sympatrically.
[edit] Habitat
Moist montanes, mainly above 1850m. Lower replaced by Sclater's Whistler and above 2700m by Lorentz's Whistler.
[edit] Behaviour
Feeds on insects, takes sometimes seeds.
Breeding recorded from July to September. Lays 2 eggs. No other information.
Resident species.
[edit] References
- Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- 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
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