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Photo by mehdhalaouate
Photo: Baliem Valley

Alternative name: Black-bibbed Robin

Poecilodryas albonotata

[edit] Identification

12.5-14.5 cm
Male

• Dark blue above
• White below, with black throat and breast
• Dark legs and feet.

Female

• Scaling on underparts
• White undertail-coverts
• Buff tail
• Pale pink legs.

[edit] Distribution

New Guinea.

Photo by Xenospiza
Tari Gap, Papua New Guinea

[edit] Taxonomy

There are 3 subspecies:

• P. a. albonotata: W New Guinea (Vogelkop Mountains)
• P. a. griseiventris: Central Highlands of New Guinea
• P. a. correcta: New Guinea (mountains of Huon Peninsula and se peninsula)

[edit] Habitat

Moist montanes.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. BirdLife International
2. 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.

• List of references

[edit] External Links