Fawn-breasted whistler
The fawn-breasted whistler is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae.
It is found on the islands of Timor and Wetar.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Alternate names for the fawn-breasted whistler include the Sunda whistler and Timor whistler. The former name is shared with the bare-throated whistler. The fawn-breasted whistler is primarily insectivorous, searching by collecting insects from underground and the shrub layer of its forest habitat in Timor and Wetar, Indonesia. It is native to the islands of Timor and Wetar, where it lives in mountainous areas up to a height of roughly 1200 meters as well as subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests.
Three subspecies are recognised:P. o. orpheus Jardine, 1849 – Rote Island, Timor, Jaco, Atauro and Wetar P. o. par Hartert, EJO, 1904 – Romang, east of Wetar; east Lesser Sunda Islands)P. o. compar Hartert, EJO, 1904 – Leti and Moa
The subspecies P. o. par and P. o. compar were formerly considered as subspecies of the yellow-throated whistler. They were reassigned to the fawn-breasted whistler based on the results of phylogenetic analyses.