New Hanover Munia - BirdForum Opus

Lonchura nigerrima

Distribution

Papua New Guinea.

Taxonomy

Monotypic.¹

Some authorities^2,3 consider this taxon a subspecies of Mottled Munia Lonchura hunsteini.

Habitat

Lowland dry grassland habitat

References

1. Clements, JF. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019
2. 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
3. Gill, F and M Wright. 2008. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, USA. 2006. ISBN 9780691128276. Update (2008) downloaded from http://worldbirdnames.org/names.html.

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Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) New Hanover Munia. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 1 June 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/New_Hanover_Munia

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