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Phylloscopus poliocephalus

Photo by Rob Hutchinson
Seram, South Maluku, Indonesia, August, 2006

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Asia and Australasia Southeast Asia: found in Indonesia, Greater Sundas, Sulawesi, Moluccas, New Guinea
Australasia: New Guinea, Melanesia, Solomon Islands

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• P. p. henrietta:

• Northern Moluccas (Halmahera and Ternate)

• P. p. waterstradti:

• Moluccas (Bacan and Obi)

• P. p. everetti:

• Buru (southern Moluccas)

• P. p. ceramensis:

• Southern Moluccas (Seram and Ambon)

• P. p. avicola:

• Kai Besar Island (Kai Islands)

• P. p. maforensis:

• Numfor Island (northern New Guinea)

• P. p. misoriensis:

• Biak Island (northern New Guinea)

• P. p. poliocephalus:

• North-western New Guinea (Tamrau, Arfak and Wandammen mountains)

• P. p. albigularis:

• West-central New Guinea (Weyland Mountains)

• P. p. paniaiae:

• West-central New Guinea (Wissel Lakes region)

• P. p. cyclopum:

• Northern New Guinea (Cyclops Mountains)

• P. p. giulianettii:

• New Guinea (Snow, Sepik, Saruwaged and Herzog mountains)

• P. p. hamlini:

• Goodenough Island (D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago)

• P. p. matthiae:

• St. Matthias Island (Bismarck Archipelago)

• P. p. moorhousei:

• Bismarck Archipelago (New Britain and Umboi)

• P. p. leletensis :

• New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago)

• P. p. becki:

• Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, Santa Isabel and Malaita)

• P. p. bougainvillei:

• Bougainville (Solomon Islands)

• P. p. pallescens:

• Kulambangra (Solomon Islands)

[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

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