RED-LORED WHISTLER

Photographed in Murray-Sunset National Park, August 2017

1220                RED-LORED WHISTLER                Pachycephala rufogularis

AUSTRALIA               713

Found in low, patchy mallee/heath/spinifex; stunted mallee on sandhills; cypress pines; broom bush. 19-22 cm. Inland se Aust.: from Round Hill NR, Cocoparra NP, to nw Vic, Big Desert NP-Sunset Country, occasionally to Hattah/Kulkyne NP; w. to Murray mallee of e. SA. Rare, local.

OLIVE WHISTLER

Photographed at Toolangi State Forest, Victoria November 2015

732               OLIVE WHISTLER             Pachycephala olivacea   

Australia         (575)

Found in alpine thickets, wetter rainforests/forests/woodlands; watercourse-vegetation; coastal tee-tree/paperbark scrubs, heaths; blackberries, gardens. More open habitats autumn and winter. In ne. NSW-se Queensland beech forest above c. 500 m. 20-22 cm. Range: coastal se Australia: from far se SA-sw Vic. patchily to Otway Ras. (Vic), n. coastal to se Q. in wetter forests/alpine woods of Gt. Dividing Ra, to about 1500 m; inland to c. Ballarat-Victorian Alps-Snowy-Brindabella Ra. (ACT)-Blue Mts (NSW). Dispersing to lowlands in autumn-winter.Uncommon, sedentary, altitudinal migrant.

Subspecies macphersoniana, at Gloucester Tops, NSW

GILBERT'S WHISTLER

Photogrpahed at Terrick Terrick National Park, Victoria November 2015

729             GILBERT’S WHISTLER              Pachycephala inornata

Australia            (572)

Found in taller drier scrubs; woodlands with dense understorey; mallee-spinifex, cypress-pine, mulga, belar, buloke, coastal tee-tree; black box/lignum, broom honey myrtle. 19-20 cm. Range: from Warrumbungles NP-Cowra-Tocumwal (NSW), s to upper Murray R (Vic)- Chiltern-Nagambie (casual You Yangs), w to Wimmeraand mallee areas of nw Vic; in SA Murray mallee-flinders Ras to n Yorke Pen-Eyre., w. to Gawler Ras-Gt Victoria Desert; in s WA, through s W. Deserts, w and n to Menzies-Paynes Find-Yalgoo, s.to c. Northam-Narrogin-Albany. Uncommon. Sedentary or nomadic.

GREY WHISTLER

Photographed at Iron Range, Queensland October 2015

709         GREY WHISTLER           Pachycephala simplex

Australia      (551)

Also known as Brown Whistler. Found in rainforests, monsoon forests, vine and coastal scrubs, mangroves, paperbarks. Range: race peninsula: from Cape York (Q) s. to c. Ingham on e. coast; up to 900 m in mountain rainforests. Nominate race: Top End (NT), coastal islands; from c. Port Keats e. to Groote Eylandt. Uncommon, Sedentary; seasonal nomadic.

WESTERN WHISTLER

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.

Photographed in Dryandra State Forest, Western Australia, May 2015

Photographed at Cheynne's Beach, Western Australia, May 2015

Photographed at Cheynne's Beach, Western Australia, May 2015

WHITE-BREASTED WHISTLER

Photpgraphed at Broome Bird Observatory, Western Australi, May 2015

594            WHITE-BREASTED WHISTLER            Pachycephala lanioides

Australia           (437)

19-21 cm. Found in low, dense mangroves; rainforest fringing coastal streams, springs. Range is discontinuous distribution in suitable mangrove habitat around coastal n. Aust., from n. of Carnarvon (WA) to Edward R., w. C. York Pen. (Q).

MANGROVE GOLDEN WHISTLER

Photographed at Broome Bird Observatory, Western Australia, May 2015

593       MANGROVE GOLDEN WHISTLER           Pachycephala melanura

Australia          (436)

Also known as Black-tailed Whistler. 15-17 cm. Found in mangroves, coastal rainforests or monsoon forest; riverside thickets, eucalyptus woodlands, coastal scrubs/heath. Range: coastal n. Aust., many coastal islands; from Carnarvon mangroves (WA) to near Mackay (Q).

Female.

RUFOUS WHISTLER

131      RUFOUS WHISTLER       Pachycephala rufiventris

Australia        (131)

Range all over mainland Australia, summer breeding in the se and moving north in Autumn/winter.Also found in Indonesia, PNG and New Caledonia. Found in open forest/woodland/scrubs from coast to arid.

GOLDEN WHISTLER

Photographed in Lane Cove National park.

125        GOLDEN WHISTLER         Pachycephala pectoralis

Australia     (125)

16.5-18.5 cm. Range includes sw of WA, bottom quarter of SA, all of Victoria andTasmania, NSW except nw quarter, and the eastern third of Queensland up to Cooktown. Found in rain forests, forests, woodlands, waterside vegetation, mangroves, orchards, scrub and golf courses.

Photographed Lincoln National Park, South Australia March 2015

Subspecies glaucoma, photographed Weldborough Pass Rainforest Walk, Tasmania February 2017