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| Photographed in Dryandra State Forest, Western Australia, May 2015 |
623 WESTERN WHISTLER Pachycephala occidentalis
Australia (466)
Formerly subspecies of Golden Whistler. Range: sw WA anywhere south of a line from Shark Bay to Cocklebiddy with a few east of the WA/SA border. Usually found in wetter forested areas with a thicker understory; also in coastal vegetation, especially if cover from peppermint trees; well-wooded reserves in wheat belt; also Rottnest Island.
This is what they call an 'armchair tick'. In when you have photographed birds all over the place and they then make one of the sub-species into a full species....so you add another tick to your list because you have already seen it, or in my case photographed it. The Western Whistler was considered a subspecies of the Australian Golden Whistler but recent DNA tests have made it a full species.
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| Photographed in Dryandra State Forest, Western Australia, May 2015 |
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| Photographed at Cheynne's Beach, Western Australia, May 2015 |
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| Photographed at Cheynne's Beach, Western Australia, May 2015 |
