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Cicadabird

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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

1 Identification
2 Distribution
3 Taxonomy
4 Habitat
5 Behaviour
6 References
7 External Links

[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

Clements lists the following sub-species1:

C. t. edithae S Sulawesi
C. t. emancipata Tanahjampea I. (Flores Sea)
C. t. kalaotuae Kalaotoa I. (Flores Sea)
C. t. pererrata Tukangbesi Islands (Kaledupa and Tomea)
C. t. pelingi Banggai Islands (Peleng and Banggai)
C. t. grayi N Moluccas (Morotai, Halmahera, Ternate, Tidore and Bacan)
C. t. obiensis S Moluccas (Obi and Bisa)
C. t. timoriensis E Lesser Sundas (Lomblen and Timor)
C. t. aruensis Aru Islands and Trans-Fly lowlands of s New Guinea
C. t. nehrkorni Waigeo I. (New Guinea)
C. t. muellerii Kofiau and Misool is., [New Guinea]] and D'Entrecasteaux Arch.
C. t. numforana Numfor I. (New Guinea)
C. t. meyerii Biak I. (New Guinea)
C. t. tagulana Louisiade Archipelago (Tagula and Misima)
C. t. rooki Umboi (Bismarck Archipelago)
C. t. remota Bismarck Arch. (New Ireland, New Hanover, Dyaul and Feni Is.)
C. t. heinrothi New Britain and Duke of York I. (Bismarck Archipelago)
C. t. matthiae St. Matthias Islands (Bismarck Archipelago)
C. t. ultima Bismarck Archipelago (Tabar, Lihir and Tanga)
C. t. admiralitatis Manus I. (Admiralty Islands)
C. t. rostrata Rossel (Solomon Islands)
C. t. erythropygia Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, Malaita, Florida and Savo)
C. t. salomonis San CristÃ³bal (Solomon Islands)
C. t. saturatior N and c Solomon Islands
C. t. nisoria Solomon Islands (Pavuvu and Russell Group)
C. t. monacha Palau Islands (w Caroline Islands)
C. t. nesiotis Yap (w Caroline Islands)
C. t. insperata Pohnpei (Caroline Islands)
C. t. melvillensis N Australia (Arnhem Land, N Territory to Cape York Peninsula)
C. t. tenuirostris E Australia (ne Queensland to se Victoria)

[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

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.

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