Category:Callaeidae - BirdForum Opus

Kokako
Photo by winmark

Family: Callaeidae

Description

New Zealand Wattlebirds.
This group should not be confused with the Australian Wattlebirds, which belong to genus Anthochaera in the Honeyeaters.
This family contains attractive, medium-sized passerines, two of them extinct. They share:

• Short rounded wings
• Ten primaries and nine secondaries
• Long rounded tail
• Fleshy wattles at the gape, hanging down form each side of the face or attached to the skin

Taxonomy

Callaeidae is a family in the order Passeriformes.
Their exact taxonomic placement is still in debate.

Family Callaeidae view • edit
	Genus Callaeas view • edit C. wilsoni North Island Kokako C. cinereus South Island Kokako
	Genus Philesturnus view • edit P. rufusater North Island Saddleback P. carunculatus South Island Saddleback
	Genus Heteralocha view • edit H. acutirostris Huia

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. 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

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Callaeidae. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Callaeidae