The mangrove whistler (''Pachycephala cinerea'') is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family

Pachycephalidae The Pachycephalidae are a family of bird species that includes the whistlers, shrikethrushes, and three of the pitohuis, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. The family includes 64 species that are separated into f ...

found in South-east Asia.

Taxonomy and systematics

Alternate names for the mangrove whistler include the grey thickhead and white-bellied whistler. The latter name should not be confused with the species of the same name, ''

Pachycephala leucogastra The white-bellied whistler (''Pachycephala leucogastra'') is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae. The species has an oddly discontinuous distribution, occurring in two small patches of northern New Guinea, one small patch in south eas ...

''. Formerly, both the green-backed and

white-vented whistler The white-vented whistler (''Pachycephala homeyeri'') is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae. It is found in the southern Philippines and a few islands of Malaysia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest ...

s were considered to be subspecies of the mangrove whistler. Mangrove Whistler Sundarban West Bengal India August 2019

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized: * ''P. c. cinerea'' – ( Blyth, 1847): Found from northeastern India to

Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...

and the

Greater Sundas The Greater Sunda Islands (Indonesian and Malay: ''Kepulauan Sunda Besar'') are four tropical islands situated within Indonesian Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean. The islands, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra, are internationally recognised fo ...

* Palawan thickhead (''P. c. plateni''), or Palawan whistler – ( Blasius, W, 1888): Originally described as a separate species. Found in

Palawan Palawan (), officially the Province of Palawan ( cyo, Probinsya i'ang Palawan; tl, Lalawigan ng Palawan), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa. It is the largest province in the country in ...

(Philippines)

References

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