White-breasted Whistler (Pachycephala lanioides) [XC239864]
by Nigel Jackett from Broome Bird Observatory, Western Australia, Australia (song)
White-breasted Whistler (Pachycephala lanioides) [XC430873]
by James Lambert from Crab Creek mangroves, Roebuck Bay, Western Australia, Australia (song)
Nest
Open, rather frail, composed of twigs and rootlets, lined with finer rootlets and anchored with cobweb, usually in a fork of a mangrove, within 2 or 3 meters of the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
1 or 2; smooth, glossy, buff-olive, spotted with umber and olive-brown, usually darker in a zone at the larger end; oval; about 26 x 19 mm. Incubation: probably by female.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fed by both parents.
Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
lanioides Gould, 1840 - Northern western Australia (coast of western Kimberley from south of Admiralty Gulf south to Eighty Mile Beach).
carnarvoni (Mathews, 1913) - Pilbara coast from Eighty Mile Beach south to Carnarvon, in north-western western Australia.
fretorum De Vis, 1889 - Extreme north-eastern western Australia (Cambridge Gulf) and coast of northern Territory (including islands of Bathurst, Melville and Groote Eylandt) east to south-western Cape York Peninsula (north-western Queensland).
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