Goldenface
Sign in to saveAlso known as Pachycare flavogriseum, Golden-faced pachycare
The goldenface (Pachycare flavogriseum) is a species of passerine bird endemic to New Guinea. It is the only species (monotypic) within the genus Pachycare.
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pachycare
- Mass
- 16.2
- Image
- Pachycare flavogrisea - The Birds of New Guinea (cropped).jpg
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- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Pachycare flavogriseum
- taxon common name
- face-dourada
- Commons category
- Pachycare flavogriseum
- short name
- P. flavogriseum
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The goldenface (Pachycare flavogriseum) is a species of passerine bird endemic to New Guinea. It is the only species (monotypic) within the genus Pachycare.
==Taxonomy and systematics== The placement of this species and genus within the passerines is uncertain. It has been suggested that it belongs with the whistlers, in the family Pachycephalidae, based on its bright yellow plumage and voice, and the species is sometimes known as the dwarf whistler. Others have suggested placing it with the Australasian robins in the family Petroicidae, but the nest architecture is unlike that of the robin family; in fact, its nests more closely resemble those of the thornbills in the family Acanthizidae, another family to which it has sometimes been aligned. This relationship was supported by a 2009 molecular study, which placed the species in that family. There are four subspecies: Pachycare flavogriseum flavogriseum, P. f. subaurantium, P. f. subpallidum and P. f. lecroyae.
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