Alternative names: Slender-billed Cicadabird; Cicadabird
- Edolisoma tenuirostre
Includes: Grey-capped, Palau, Pohnpei and Yap Cicadabirds
Identification
26cm
Male
- Slate grey
- Blackish grey-edged wings
Female
- Mid-brown back
- Wings edged with sandy tan
- Sandy tan below
- Grey barred belly
Distribution
Southeast Asia: found in Indonesia, Greater Sundas, Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas, Moluccas and Island of Timor
Australasia: Papua New Guinea, Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia), Melanesia and the Solomon Islands
Taxonomy
Makira Cicadabird Coracina salomonis (or Makira Cuckoo-shrike) was split from Cicadabird by Dickinson (2003)[2] and Gill and Donsker (2010)[3].
Forms a superspecies with Sumba Cuckoo-shrike, Makira Cicadabird, Kai Cuckoo-shrike and Sula Cuckoo-shrike.
Formerly placed in the genus Coracina.
Subspecies
More than 25 subspecies on the different islands and island groups in the Pacific.
Several subspecies are accepted as full species by some authorities:[3]
- remotus, ultima, saturatius and erythropygium as Grey-capped Cicadabird E. remotus.
- monacha as Palau Cicadabird
- insperatum as Pohnpei Cicadabird
- nesiotis as Yap Cicadabird
Clements lists the following sub-species:[1]
- E. t. edithae: Southern Sulawesi
- E. t. emancipatum: Tanahjampea Island (Flores Sea)
- E. t. kalaotuae: Kalaotoa Island (Flores Sea)
- E. t. pererratum: Tukangbesi Islands (Kaledupa and Tomea)
- E. t. pelingi: Banggai Islands (Peleng and Banggai)
- E. t. grayi: Northern Moluccas (Morotai, Halmahera, Ternate, Tidore and Bacan)
- E. t. obiense: Southern Moluccas (Obi and Bisa)
- E. t. timoriense: Eastern Lesser Sundas (Lomblen and Timor)
- E. t. aruense: Aru Islands and Trans-Fly lowlands of southern New Guinea
- E. t. nehrkorni: Waigeo Island (New Guinea)
- E. t. muellerii: Kofiau and Misool Islands, [New Guinea]] and D'Entrecasteaux Archaepelago
- E. t. numforanum: Numfor Island (New Guinea)
- E. t. meyerii: Biak Island (New Guinea)
- E. t. tagulanum: Louisiade Archipelago (Tagula and Misima)
- E. t. rooki: Umboi (Bismarck Archipelago)
- E. t. remotus: Bismarck Archaepelago (New Ireland, New Hanover, Dyaul and Feni Island)
- E. t. heinrothi: New Britain and Duke of York Islands (Bismarck Archipelago)
- E. t. matthiae: Bismarck Archipelago (Mussau and Emirau)
- E. t. ultimum: Bismarck Archipelago (Tabar, Lihir and Tanga)
- E. t. rostratum: Rossel (Solomon Islands)
- E. t. erythropygium: Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, Malaita, Florida and Savo)
- E. t. saturatius: Northern and central Solomon Islands
- E. t. nisorium: Solomon Islands (Pavuvu and Russell Group)
- E. t. monacha: Palau Islands (western Caroline Islands)
- E. t. nesiotis: Yap (western Caroline Islands)
- E. t. insperatum: Pohnpei (Caroline Islands)
- E. t. melvillense: Northern Australia (Arnhem Land, Northern Territory to Cape York Peninsula)
- E. t. tenuirostre: Eastern Australia (north-eastern Queensland to south-eastern Victoria)
Habitat
Temperate forests and moist lowland forests. Eucalypt woodland.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes insects, larvae, beetles, crickets, stick insects, fruit and seeds.
Breeding
The shallow nest is built from twigs, plant stems, leaves and bark, woven with spiderwebs.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to December 2007 (Corrigenda 7). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
- Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2021. IOC World Bird List (v11.1). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.11.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Birds of Lamington National Park
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Common Cicadabird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 1 June 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Common_Cicadabird
