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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Papuan birder" data-source="post: 1214928" data-attributes="member: 31707">Anyone that happen to know anything recent about that mysterious black bird found on Goodenough Island in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands?To my knowledge it is known from something like 2-3 observations in total and there has been quite a discussion in the past about what it could be.It has been described as: Black plumage and it have the size of a small crow and it also poses a long tail. Its call is short and explosive. I think it was first recorded by some of the members on the fourth Archbold Expedition in 1953, and was later seen by James Menzies who observed a small group of these birds in the forest canopy on Mount Oiamadawa in 1975. Some suggests that it could be a undescribed bird of Paradise, while others think it may be somesort of honeyeater or Drongo. I have also read about thoughts that it may be a population of the Paradise crow L. pyrrhopterus, but the last alternative is very unlikely. Problem seems to be that it is restricted to the mountains of Goodenough, some birdwatchers do visit Goodenough but very few, if anyone has visited the mountain areas in recent decades.</blockquote>