- Cincloramphus llaneae
Megalurulus llaneae
Identification
17–19 cm (6¾-7½ in)
- Dark olive-brown upperparts
- Small black mask
- Blackish lesser wing-coverts
- Blackish tail
- Reddish-cinnamon supercilium, chin through to upper breast
- Dullish brown belly
Distribution
Australasia: found on the mountains of Bougainville (northern Solomon Islands) Papua New Guinea.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
Wet mossy forest on mountain ridges, in dense ferns and bamboo.
Behaviour
Diet
An extremely difficult species to see, so there is currently no information on what they eat. They spend most of their time on the ground under the cover of ferns.
Breeding
They construct a cup nest from dark vegetation, lining it with finer fibres. It is placed in a niche about 2 m up on a vertical rock wall beside a stream. The clutch contains 1-2 creamy eggs with small brown spots at the larger end.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Lepage D. (2020) Avibase Retrieved 3 September 2020
- del Hoyo, J., N. Collar, and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Bougainville Thicketbird (Cincloramphus llaneae), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.bouthi1.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Bougainville Thicketbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Bougainville_Thicketbird
