Rhipidura atra, Salvadori, 1876

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 : 97

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6D2353AF-B244-409B-AF02-944A06062AE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12724347

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0388A018-FFE7-FFCD-C4A0-FE0EFF1AC152

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scientific name

Rhipidura atra
status

 

BLACK FANTAIL Rhipidura atra View in CoL

Common above 1,475 m, singing, often in pairs. Previously recorded for the Adelberts only byȱPrattȱ(1982).

WAHNES’S PAROTIA Parotia wahnesi Uncommon :ȱheardȱfiveȱtimesȱbetweenȱ1,495ȱandȱ1,660ȱm.ȱItsȱvocalisationsȱareȱaȱmedleyȱofȱ staccato clucks; short harsh notes are repeated at half-second intervals, like the sound made by striking a hollow log; other unusual sounds; and clear notes. Well known to Munggur villagers and named ‘kakopelima’. We found no display courts, probably because villagers reportedȱthatȱtheseȱareȱsitedȱinȱgulliesȱratherȱthanȱonȱtheȱridge.ȱPreviouslyȱreportedȱbyȱPrattȱ (1982).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Rhipiduridae

Genus

Rhipidura

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