The Whistler family of birds includes whistlers and shrikethrushes.. They are found in Australasia. They predominantly live in wooded areas and their diet consists mainly of insects. They are small stout birds with strong bills. Why the stout bills if they mainly eat insects? Because they are opportunistic feeders and will eat snail and small vertebrates,
Genus Colluricincla
Shirkethrush,_Bower's Colluricincla boweri Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Jim_Bendon 2) Tom_Tarrant 3) Gary_Leavens
Shrikethrush,_Gray Colluricincla harmonica Found: Australasia
The Gray Shrikethrush plumage varies depending on subspecies. In the east it has olive-gray upperparts; pale Fgray-white cheeks, underparts. Western birds have gray upperparts; buff underparts. Northern birds have mainly brown plumage.
Image by: 1) JJ Harrison - Tasmania, Australia 2) birdsaspoetry 3) Nik_Borrow - Tasmania 4) David Cook - Rocky Hall, NSW, Australia
Shirkethrush,_Little Colluricincla megarhyncha Found: Australia, New Guinea
The nominate race of Little Shrikethrush has ferruginous upperparts; duller crown; dull rufous-brown tail; light dull rufous underparts.
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Katerina_Tvardikova - New Guinea 4) Dave Cook - Queensland
Shirkethrush, Sandstone Colluricincla woodwardi Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Richard_Hart
Shirkethrush,_Sooty also Morningbird Colluricincla tenebrosa also Pachycephala tenebrosa Found: New Guinea
The Sooty Shrikethrush has dark brown upperparts; lighter brown underparts; brownish-red eyes; black bill; gray legs.
Image by: 1) Stubblefield 2) Devonpike - Palau
Genus Coracornis
The Shrikethrushes have nondescript, predominantly brown or grey, plumage, but are accomplished singers, their calls described as strong, mellow and beautiful. Shrikethrushes are generally insectivorous, though heve been recorded eating molluscs and berries. They build cup-shaped nests in the forks of trees.
Whistler,_Maroon-backed Coracornis raveni Found: Sulawesi of Indonesia
Image by: 1) Yann_Muzika - Sulawesi
Shrikethrush,_Sangihe Coracornis sanghirensis also Colluricincla sanghirensis Found: Sangihe Island (Indonesia)
Image by: 1) Marc_Thjbault
`Genus Falcunculus - 1 species
The shriketit is also placed in its own family, Falcunculidae.
Shriketit, Crested Falcunculus frontatus Found: Australia
The male Crested Shriketit has black throat. Female has olive-green throat.
Image by: 1) Brian_McCauley 2) David Cook - NSW 3) Nik_Borrow - NSW 4) birdsaspoetry1) Female 2, 3, 4) Male
Genus Melanorectes - 1 species
Pitohui,_Black Melanorectes nigrescens Found: New Guinea
The male Black Pitohui has slatly black plumage. Female has olive-brown upperparts; tawny-brown underparts.
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Katerina_Tvardikova 4) Nik Borrow
Genus Pachycephalas
These species are referred to as the typical whistlers; so-called for their whistling sounds.
Whistler,_Australian Golden also Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis Found: Australasia
The male Australian Golden Whistler has olive-green upperparts; black head, white throat; bordered below by black band; yellow rear-collar; yellow underparts. Females have gray upperparts with pale olive tinge; paler gray underparts. Species sometimes still treated as subspecies of P. pectoralis are: Black-chinned Whistler, Oriole Whistler, Rusty-breasted Whistler, White-throated Whistler, Yellow-throated Whistler,
Simialr to: Samoan Whistler. Their range does not ovefrlap.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2, 5,7 David Cook - NSW, Australia 3) Arthur Chapman - Queensland 4) Nik Borrow 6) Paul_Balfe - Queensland 8) Laurie_BoyleSimialr to: Samoan Whistler. Their range does not ovefrlap.
2) Juvenile 3, 4, 5) female 6, 7, 8) Male
Whistler,_Bare-throated Pachycephala nudigula Found: Indonesia
Image by: 1) Ingo_Waschkies 2) John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2) Ron_Knight 4) Yann_Muzika
Whistler,_Black-chinned Pachycephala mentalis Found: Indonesia
The male Black-chinned Whistler has black head; white throat; black partial chest-band; yellow rest of underparts. Sometimes considered subspecies of (Australian) Golden Whistler.
Image by: 1) John_Mittermeier
Whistler,_Black-headed Pachycephala monacha Found: New Guinea
The male Black-headed Whistler has brownisj-black upperparts; black head, neck, throat, upper-breast; white rest underpart. Female similar.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Jerry_Oldenettel
Whistler,_Bornean Pachycephala hypoxantha Found: Borneo
Image by: 1, 2) Lip_kee 3) Hans_Olofsson
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Whistler,_Brown-backed Pachycephala modesta Found: New Guinea
The Brown-backed Whister has sooty brown upperparts with olive wash; dark gray crown; gray upperface; brown ear-coverts; white underparts.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Jerry_Oldenettel
Whistler,_Drab Pachycephala griseonota Found: Indonesia
Image by: 1) John_Mittermeier
Whistler,_Fawn-breasted Pachycephala orpheus Found: Indonesia
Image by: 1) Yann_Muzika 2) Peter_Ericcson
Whistler,_Gilbert's Pachycephala inornata Found: Australia
Similar to: Red-lored Whistler.
Image by:1) Nik_Borrow , 2) David Cook - Gluepot Reserve, South Australia, Australia 3) Peter Jacobs.jpg){kind=link}
1) Female / immature 2, 3) Male
Whistler,_Golden-backed Pachycephala aurea Found: New Guinea
The Golden-backed Whistler has black crown, face, neck; yellow back, rump; black tail, upper-wing, chin, side of throat; broad black breast-band; yellow remainder underparts; brown eyes; black bill; dark gray legs.;
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) hbw.com
Whistler,_Gray Pachycephala simplex Found:Australia, New Guinea
The Gray Whistler has olive-brown upperparts; gray-brown wings; dark olive-brown tail; grayish-brown lores, ear coverts; off-white underparts.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Lip_kee - Northern Territory, AU 3) Geoff_Whalan
Whistler,_Green-backed Pachycephala albiventris Found: Philippines
Image by: 1) Lim_Chiu
Whistler,_Hooded Pachycephala implicata Found:New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova
Whistler,_Island Pachycephala phaionota Found: Moluccas islands of Indonesia
Image by: 1) Joseph_Smit
Whistler_Lorentz Pachycephala lorentzi Found: New Guinea
The Lorentz Whistler has olive-green back; gray crown, nape, face; black wings, tail; white throat; gray upper-breast; remainder underparts dull yelliow' darl brown eyes; black bill.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Nigel_Voaden
Whistler,_Mangrove Pachycephala cinerea Found: southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Image by: 1) Dibyendu_Ash 2) Choy_Wai_Mun
Whistler,_Mangrove_Golden also Black-tailed Whistler Pachycephala melanura Found: Australia, New Guinea
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Brian_McCauley 3, 4) Tom_Tarrant
2, 3) Female 4) Male
Whistler,_New_Caledonian Pachycephala caledonica Found: New Caledonia
Image by: 1) Josep_del_Hoyo
Whistler,_Olive Pachycephala olivacea Found: southeast Australasia
The Olive Whistler has mainly olive-brown plumage. Male has dark gray head; pale gray breast; red tinged belly, rump. Female lacks red tinge and has brown underparts.
Image by: 1) JJ_Harrison - Tasmania 2) Ron_Knight 3) Mdekool
Whistler,_Oriole Pachycephala orioloides Found: Solomon Islands
Sometimes considered subspecies of (Australian) Golden Whistler.
Image by: 1) P_Khoo 2, 3) Tammy_Davies1) Female 2) Male
Whistler,_Red-lored Pachycephala rufogularis Found: South Australia, western Victoria
Similar to: Gilbert's Whistler.
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Nik_Borrow1) Juvenile 2. 3) Male
Whistler,_Regent Pachycephala schlegelii Found: New Guinea
The male Regent Whistler dark olive-green upperparts with black wings; black face, crown, throat; white chin; yellow hind collar; black upper-breast; rest underparts yellow. Female has olive-green upperparts; white chin; gray head, upper-breast; rest underparts yellow.
Image by: 1. 3) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Nik_Borrow
Whistler,_Rufous Pachycephala rufiventris Found: Australia, New Guinea
The male Rufous Whistler has dark gray upperparts; black head, breast-band; white throat; rufous underparts. Female has dull gray or brown upperparts; white underparts with streaks.
Image by: 1, 2, 5) David_Cook - NSW, Australia 3) James_Niland - Queensland 4) Nik_Borrow 5, 7) Patrick_K59 8) Aviceda - Queensland
1 - 5) Female 5, 6, 7) Male
Whistler,_Rusty Pachycephala hyperythra Found: New Guinea
The Rusty Whistler has warm olive-brown upperparts; dark slate-gray lores, crown; dusky brown ear-coverts; white throat; light rufous underparts; dark brown eyes; black bill.
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Katerina_Tvardikova
Whistler,_Rusty-breasted Pachycephala fulvotincta Found: Indonesia
The male Rusty-breasted Whistler has black head; white throat bordered below by black; rusty-tinged yellow breast; yellow belly. Sometimes considered subspecies of (Australian) Golden Whistler.
Image by: 1, 2) John_Mittermeier
Whistler,_Samoan Pachycephala flavifrons Found: Samoa
Simialr to: Australian Golden Whistler. The male Samoan Whistler has blacker upperparts, yellow or white to the forehead, a dull black throat that is strongly mottled with yellow or white, and no black chest-band. The female resembles a duller version of the male with a pale grey throat.
Image by: 1) Josep_del_Hoyo1) Female
Whistler,_Scalter's Pachycephala soror Found: New Guinea
The male Scalter's Whistler has dark olive-green upperparts; black head; white throat; yellow underparts. Female has olive-green upperparts; gray-brown crown; brown face; white throat; yellowish-olive breast-band; yellow belly.
Image by: 1, 2, 4) Katerina_Tvardikova 3, 5) Nik Borrow2, 3) Female 4, 5) Male
Whistler,_Sulpher-bellied also Sulpher-vented Whistler Pachycephala sulfuriventer Found: Sulawesi in Indonesia
Image by: 1) Adolf_Meyer 2) AS_Kono
Whistler,_Tongan Pachycephala jacquinoti Found: Tongo
The male Tongan Whistler has olive-green upperparts; black head, throat; yellow underparts. Female has yellow underparts
Image by: 1) Mary_Bomford
Whistler,_Vegelkop Pachycephala meyeri Found: New Guinea
Image by: 1) hbw.com
Whistler,_Wallacean Pachycephala arctitorquis Found: Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia
Image by: 1, 3) Joseph Smit 2, 4) John_Hornbuckle
Whistler,_Western Pachycephala occidentalis Found: western Australia
Image by: 1, 2) julie_burgher - Western Australia
Whistler,_White-bellied Pachycephala leucogastra Found:
The male White-bellied Whistler has brownish-gray upperparts; black head, hind-neck; broad breast-band; white throat; dark brown tail, wings; red-brown eyes; black bill. Female has dark gray upperparts; whitish throat; gray breast-band; white or buffy rest of underparts.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Marcel_Holyoak
Whistler,_White-breasted Pachycephala lanioides Found: Australia
Image by: 1) Geoff_Whalan - Northern Territoryn 2, 3) Brian_McCauley
1, 2) Female 3) Male
Whistler,_White-throated also Fiji Whistler Pachycephala vitiensis Found: Fiji
Sometimes considered subspecies of (Australian) Golden Whistler.
Image by: 1) Hartlaub_Finsch 2) Tom_Tarrant
Whistler,_White-vented Pachycephala homeyeri Found: Indonesia, Malaysia
Image by: 1) Grandpa50 2) Charles_Davies
Whistler,_Yellow-bellied Pachycephala philippinensis Found: Philippines
Image by: 1) Richter 2, 3) Francesco_Veronesi - Mindanao
Whistler,_Yellow-throated also Banda Sea Whistler Pachycephala macrorhyncha Found: Indonesia
The Banda Sea Whistler has many subspecies; only the male of P. m. fuscoflava has a yellow throat. Sometimes considered subspecies of (Australian) Golden Whistler.
Image by: 1) Joseph_Smit 2) Jame Eaton1) P. m. fuscoflava 2) P. m. dammeriana
Genus Pseudorectes
also Colluricincla
Pitohui, Rusty Pseudorectes ferrugineus also Colluricincla ferruginea Found: New Guinea
The male Rusty Pitohui has rufous-brown upperparts; brown upper-wing coverts; rufous tail; rusty buff underparts; paler throat.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) dizzy33
Whistler,_Vanuatu Pachycephala chlorura Found: southeast Solomon Islands
Image by: 1) John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2) Jarmo_Komi
Pitohui, White-bellied Pseudorectes incertus also Colluricincla incerta Found: New Guinea
The White-bellied Pitohui has dark brown upperparts; crown; tail tinged rufous; pale brown underparts; dark brown eyes, bill; olive-gray legs. Sexes similar.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Frederic_Pelsy
Order Passeriformes Family Eulacestomidae
The Wattled Ploughbill is the only member of the monotypic genus Eulacestoma,
Genus Eulacestoma - 1 species
Ploughbill, Wattled Eulacestoma nigropectus Found: New Guinea
The male Wattled Ploughbill has olive upperparts; black underparts, wings. Female has olive-green upperparts; pale olive underparts; pink wattles on cheek. Both sexes have wedge-shaped black bill used to plough into dead branches etc. searching for insects.
Image by: 1, 3) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Brendan_Ryan2, 3) Male
The members of family Mohouidae were previously situated in the whistler family. All three of thesse New Zealand species have been known to practice cooperative breeding. They are the sole host for the Long-tailed Cuckoo which pushes the host's eggs out of the nest before laying its single egg.
Genus Mohoua
Whitehead Mohoua albicilla Found: North Island of New Zealand
The Whitehead has mainly pale brown upperparts; white head, underparts. Female has has pale brown crown, nape.
Image by: 1) Roger South 2) Duncan Wright - Tiritiri Matangi Island, New Zealand 3) David Cook - Tiritiri Matangi Island, Auckland Province, North Island, New Zealand 4) 57Andrew
Pipipi also Brown Creeper Mohoua novaeseelandiae Found: South Island of New Zealand
Image by: 1) Tom Tarrant 2) Jon_Sullivan
Yellowhead Mohoua ochrocephala Found: South Island of New Zealand
Image by: 1) Jake_Osborne 2) David Cook
There are only two or three species in the Australasian family Neosittidaea. The Sittela resemble nuthatches, but this is due to convergent evolution. The principal component of the diet of sittellas are insects and other arthropods. Sittellas forage on horizontal branches and the trunks of trees. Their foraging techniques has been described as hopping rapidly along the length of a horizontal branch, pausing briefly to peer for prey, occasionally hanging underneath the branch but usually on top of it. Most of the time is spent on branches rather than on the trunks.
Genus Daphoenositta
Sittella, Black Daphoenositta miranda Found: New Guinea
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) W Hart
Sittella,_Varied Daphoenositta chrysoptera Found: Australia, New Guinea
The Varied Sittella has gray or whitish upperparts often streaked black and gray; white, gray, or black crown and head; black wings; dark orange eyes; orange-yellow eye-ring, legs, feet.
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2, 7 Patrick_K59 3, 4) patrickkavanagh 5, 6) Peter Jacobs 8) birdsaspoetry_(21575150471).jpg){kind=link}
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Oreoicidae is a newly recognized family of small insectivorous songbirds, formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" family. It contains 3 species, all in different genera.
Genus Aleadryas - 1 speices
Bellbird, Rufous-naped Aleadryas rufinucha Found: New Guinea
The Rufous-naped Bellbird has dull yellowish-olive upperparts; gray head, hindneck; rufous nape patch; olive-brown tail; yellow throat patch; whitish center of breast, belly.
Image by: 1, 2, 3) Katerina_Tvardikova 4) Jerry_Oldenettel
Genus Oreoica - 1 species
Bellbird,_Crested Oreoica gutturalis Found: Australia
The male Crested Bellbird has gray or olive-brown upperparts; gray head; black crest, breast. Female more muted; lacks black on breast.
Image by: 1, 4) David Cook - Queensland
2, 5) Brian_McCauley 3) julie_burgher 1) Juvenile 2) Female 3 - 5) Male
Genus Ornorectes - 1 species
Pitohui, Crested Ornorectes cristatus Found: New Guinea
Image by: 1) Michael_Pennay
Order Passeriformes Family Rhagologidae
Some place the Mottled Berryhunder in family Rhagologidae - in that case it is the only member of the family. Others place it in the whistler family: Pachycephalidae.
Genus Rhagologus - 1 species
Berryhunter,_Mottled Rhagologus leucostigma Found: New Guinea
The male Mottled Berryhunter has brownish-olive upperparts, hind-neck; gray forehead, crown; brownish-gray tail. Female has more pronounce markings on top of head; underparts lighter with more distinct dark markings; lower back streaked rusty outline black; head and chin much brighter rufous.
Image by: 1, 2) Katerina_Tvardikova1) Female 2) Male
