Vanikoro Whistler

When to see the Vanikoro Whistler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 2 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

About the Vanikoro Whistler

The Vanikoro whistler is a passerine bird in the family Pachycephalidae, which is endemic to the southeast Santa Cruz Islands of the Solomon Islands group. The Nendo whistler and Utupua whistler were formerly treated as subspecies. Before the split the combined species were known by the English name "Temotu whistler".

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Easily confused with

Biak WhistlerPachycephala melanorhynchaThe Biak whistler is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae. Utupua WhistlerPachycephala utupuaeThe Utupua whistler is a passerine bird in the family Pachycephalidae that is endemic to the island of Utupua in the Santa Cruz Islands of the western Pacific Ocean. Tenggara WhistlerPachycephala calliopeCompared to other members of the golden whistler group, the Tenggara whistler is relatively small, and males have a white throat and a rust-tinged chest, except in the subspecies teysmanni from Selayar Islands where the plumage of the male is female-like.