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'''Alternative names: Glossy Manucode; Black Manucode''' | '''Alternative names: Glossy Manucode; Black Manucode''' | ||
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38 - 42cm. A Bird-of-paradise with a crow-like appearance. | 38 - 42cm. A Bird-of-paradise with a crow-like appearance. | ||
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Revision as of 10:44, 28 November 2014
Alternative names: Glossy Manucode; Black Manucode
- Manucodia ater
Manucodia atra
Identification
38 - 42cm. A Bird-of-paradise with a crow-like appearance.
- Blie-black head and neck with irididescent blue-green tipping on smooth feathering
- Dense feathers (not elongated or erectile) above eyes
- Smooth-plumaged blue-black mantle, back, rump, upperwing and uppertail with iridescent blue and purple to magenta glosses
- Long, graduated tail
- Iridiscent tipping on chin and throat form inverted V-shape
- Underparts like upperparts but with more blue-green iridescence
- Blood-red eye with brown inner ring
- Dark grey to black bill
- Base of culmen ridge broadenend and flattened (to a degree intermediate of Jobi Manucode and Crinkle-collared Manucode)
Females are slightly smaller and have a greener gloss. Juveniles are downy and more brownish-black, immatures duller than adults and with orange-yellow to yellowish-orange eye.
Similar species
Similar to Jobi Manucode and Crinkle-collared Manucode.
Distribution
New Guinea and some adjacent islands.
Common in its range.
Taxonomy
The scientific name was formerly spelled Manucodia atra.
Subspecies
Although the geographical variation seems to be clinal and some authorities treat the species as monotypic, three subspecies are usually recognized[1]:
- M. a. ater on mainland New Guinea, patchily from Vogelkop east to Huon Gulf and south to Purari River
- M. a. subalter on West Papuan Islands (Gebe, Waigeo, Gam, Batanta, Salawati, Misool, Aru Islands and southeast peninsula of New Guinea
- M. a. alter on Tagula Island
Habitat
Lowland forest and many other forest types, occasionally edges of gardens. Occurs from sea-level up to 1100m.
Behaviour
Forages usually singly or in pairs in canopy or subcanopy, also in low dense vegetation. Inconspicuous.
Diet
Feeds mostly on fruits (especially figs), but takes possibly also flowers and some animals (insects and worms).
Breeding
Breeding season from August to March. A monogamous species. The nest is a deep cup made of dead and dry vine tendrils or stems. It's suspendend in a forked branch 4 - 12m above the ground. Lays 1 - 3 eggs.
Movements
Presumably a resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2009. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 14: Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553507
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Glossy-mantled Manucode. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Glossy-mantled_Manucode
