Babar Whistler
Pachycephala sharpei
A chunky, heavy-billed forest songbird endemic to the island of Babar, located in eastern Indonesia between Timor and the Tanimbar Islands. Male is distinctive, with a black hood, a white throat, bright yellow underside, and dull green upperparts with a golden collar. Females are duller, with a brown head, white throat, yellow underparts, and dull olive-green upperparts. Wallacean Whistler also occurs on Babar, but females of that species are even duller than female Babar Whistlers, lacking the yellow belly. Vocalizations are poorly known, but likely include a bright, whistled song. Formerly treated as a subspecies of the more widespread Yellow-throated Whistler.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Pachycephala sharpei
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pachycephalidae
- Genus
- Pachycephala
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Distribution
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