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- Pachycephala vitiensis
Includes White-throated Whistler
Identification
16-19 cm
- Yellow throat
Distribution
Taxonomy
Sometimes regarded conspecific with Golden Whistler.
Subspecies
There are 10 subspecies, formerly split into two species by Gill and Donsker[3]:
- Fiji Whistler
- P. v. bella on Vatu Vara Island
- P. v. koroana on Karo Island
- P. v. torquata on Taveuni Island
- P. v. aurantiiventris on Yanganga and Vanua Levu Islands (except southeast)
- P. v. ambigua on southeast Vanua Levu, Rabi and Kioa
- P. v. optata on southeast Viti Levu and Ovalau
- P. v. graeffii on Waya and Viti Levu Islands
- White-throated Whistler
Clements[1] lumps Fiji Whistler and White-throated Whistler. The taxons utupuae and ornata have been included here by Gill and Donsker but are now placed by both authorities in Temotu Whistler.
Habitat
Behaviour
Feeds mainly on insects and spiders.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to December 2007 (Corrigenda 7). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2016. IOC World Bird Names (version 6.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Fiji Whistler. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fiji_Whistler
