Species profile
Yellowhead
Mohoua ochrocephala
Quick answer
Forests of South I. and Stewart I. (New Zealand)
- Scientific name
- Mohoua ochrocephala
- Family
- Acanthizidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Mohoua
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
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Related species in Acanthizidae
- Ashy Gerygone (Gerygone cinerea)
- Atherton Scrubwren (Sericornis keri)
- Banded Whiteface (Aphelocephala nigricincta)
- Biak Gerygone (Gerygone hypoxantha)
- Bicolored Mouse Warbler (Crateroscelis nigrorufa)
- Brown Gerygone (Gerygone mouki)
- Brown Thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla)
- Brown-breasted Gerygone (Gerygone ruficollis)