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Photo by Tom Tarrant
Photo taken: Australia.

Alternative names: Slender-billed Cicadabird; Common Cicadabird

Coracina tenuirostris

Includes: Grey-capped, Palau, Pohnpei, Yap and Makira Cicadabird

[edit] Identification

26cm. Male - slate grey, blackish grey edged wings; female - mid-brown back, wings edged with sandy tan, sandy tan below, grey barred belly.

[edit] Distribution

Australia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.

[edit] Taxonomy

More than 25 subspecies on the different islands and island groups in the Pacific.
Several subspecies are accepted as full species by some authorities:

• remota as Grey-capped Cicadabird
• monacha as Palau Cicadabird
• insperata as Pohnpei Cicadabird
• nesiotis as Yap Cicadabird
• salomonis as Makira Cicadabird or Makira Cuckoo-shrike

[edit] Habitat

Temperate forests and moist lowland forests.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes insects, larvae, beetles, crickets, stick insects, fruit and seeds.

The shallow nest is built from twigs, plant stems, leaves and bark, woven with spiderwebs.

[edit] References

Birds of Lamington National Park

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