From Opus
Alternative names: Dwarf Whistler; Golden-faced Pachycare; Grey-and-yellow Flycatcher
- Pachycare flavogriseum
[edit] Identification
13cm. A striking bird:
- Crown and hindnape bluish-grey
- Black line separating crown from bright yellow forehead, supercilium and ear-coverts
- Light bluish-grey upperparts
- Dusk grey outer primaries
- Bluish-grey tertials with black inner webs, each with white tip
- Bluish-grey tail
- Bright yellow throat and underparts
- Black bill
- Light brown to brown legs
Females are similar but they have ear-coverts with a dusky patch and less black on the forehead. Juveniles apparently like females.
Randi and subaurantium are darker below with an orange tinge, subpallidum is paler.
[edit] Distribution
Endemic to New Guinea.
Common in upper altitudinal parts of range.
[edit] Taxonomy
- Western New Guinea (Vogelkop and Wandammen mountains)
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- New Guinea (Snow Mountains in Idenburg River area)
- South-eastern New Guinea (Herzog and Saruwaged mountains)
[edit] Habitat
Hill and lower montane forest, also adjacent secondary growth. Occurs mainly at 800 - 1650m, recorded at 400 - 1800m.
[edit] Behaviour
Feeds on insects and spiders.
Forages in outer foliage in lower and middle storey. Sometimes seems in mixed-species flocks.
Breeding recorded in October, June and November. The nest is globular with a side entrance and made of dry twigs, leaf strips, moss, lichen and grass. It's placed on the ground against downhill base of a sapling or a small tree on a slope. Lays 2 eggs.
Probably a sedentary species.
[edit] References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2007. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553422
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