Tanysiptera nympha, G. R. Gray, 1840

Diamond, Jared & Bishop, K. David, 2021, Avifauna of the Adelbert Mountains, New Guinea: why is Fire-maned Bowerbird Sericulus bakeri the mountains’ only endemic bird species?, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 141 (1), pp. 75-108 : 94

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v141i1.2021.a8

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12724331

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scientific name

Tanysiptera nympha
status

 

RED-BREASTED PARADISE KINGFISHER Tanysiptera nympha View in CoL

Noisy, commonly heard and seen at Kangarangate but not at our higher elevation site of Munggur.ȱTwoȱcallsȱareȱfrequentlyȱgiven:ȱaȱveryȱfastȱdescendingȱtrill,ȱsimilarȱtoȱtheȱfirstȱpartȱ ofȱ theȱ callȱ ofȱ Yellow-billedȱ Kingfisherȱ Syma torotoro ,ȱ butȱ withȱ aȱ spittedȱ unmusicalȱ quality;ȱ and a very faint, long, medium-high pitch, single ascending note. Segregated ecologically fromȱ Commonȱ Paradiseȱ Kingfisherȱ T. galatea by inhabiting higher elevations, and by perching higher in forest (at 6–15 m) rather than in the lower storey. We encountered T. galatea just once, at low elevation (815 m), at Kangarangate.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Coraciiformes

Family

Alcedinidae

Genus

Tanysiptera

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