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Eos squamata

Photo by martinuk
Location: Foli, Halmahera, Maluku Utara, Indonesia, October, 2009

[edit] Identification

27cm. Purple/blue wide band around neck, dark purple abdomen to undertail coverts, soft purple scapulars tipped in black, red greater wing coverts and flight feathers with wide black tips, red underwing coverts and undersides of flight feathers, with black tips on primaries, tail purple/red, bill orange/brown, eye orange.

[edit] Distribution

Indonesia.

[edit] Taxonomy

Three subspecies are recognized:^[1]

• E.s. riciniata - North Moluccas and Widi Island
• E.s. obiensis - North Moluccas (Obi and Bisa)
• E.s. squamata - West Papuan islands and Schildpad Island

[edit] Habitat

Moist lowland forests and mangrove forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. 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.

• List of references

[edit] External Links