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- Pachycephala vitiensis
Includes White-throated Whistler and Temotu Whistler
Identification
16-19 cm
- Yellow throat
Distribution
Taxonomy
Sometimes regarded conspecific with Golden Whistler.
Subspecies
There are 12 subspecies, 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
- P. v. utupuae: Utupua Island (Solomon Islands)
- P. v. ornata: Northern Santa Cruz Islands
- P. v. kandavensis: Kandavu Islands (Fiji)
- P. v. lauana: Southern Lau Archipelago (Fiji)
- P. v. vitiensis: Ngau (Fiji)
Clements[1] lumps Fiji Whistler and White-throated Whistler but splits utupuae and ornata as Temotu Whistler (Pachycephala utupuae).
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. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. 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). 2014. IOC World Bird Names (version 4.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Fiji Whistler. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fiji_Whistler
