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GOLDEN WHISTLER FACTS |
Description
The male Golden Whistler has olive green back and wings and bright yellow underside. The head is black with yellow collar, and throat is white with a black band between the throat and yellow chest. Females are grey above and paler below with dark brown bill and grey brown legs. Young Golden Whistlers are rufous brown becoming more like females as they mature. Adult males develop the black and yellow colours.
Size
17cm
Habitat
dense wooded habitat, from rainforest to mallee
Food
insects, spiders and other small arthropods. Also some berries
Breeding
nest is a shallow bowl, made of twigs, grass and bark, bound with spider web and lined with fine grass. The nest is built in fork in a bush or tree up to 6m above the ground. Lays 2-3 eggs
Range
northern Queensland, around coastal eastern and southern Australia, including Tasmania, to the middle of Western Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Pachycephalidae | | Genus: | Pachycephala | | Species: | pectoralis | | Common Name: | Golden Whistler |
Relatives in same Genus
Mangrove Golden Whistler (P. melanura)
Olive Whistler (P. olivacea)
Rufous Whistler (P. rufiventris)
Grey Whistler (P. simplex)
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