Published March 9, 2021
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Sericulus bakeri
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Description
FIRE-MANED BOWERBIRD Sericulus bakeri
Present at both of our sites, in small numbers from 1,150 to 1,385 m, giving diverse harsh calls, most of them soft, a few loud. Several female-plumaged birds and multiple adult males gathered in one fruiting tree. We found one bower at 1,150 m, on the shaded sloping forestȱ floor.ȱ Itsȱ shapeȱ wasȱ rectangular,ȱ 38ȱ ×ȱ 20ȱ cm,ȱ andȱ itȱ comprisedȱ severalȱ dozenȱ darkȱ brownȱ sticksȱ 13ȱ cmȱ longȱ lyingȱ flatȱ onȱ theȱ groundȱ orȱ insertedȱ diagonallyȱ inȱ twoȱ rows.ȱ Decorations consisted of 128 white fruits 1 cm in diameter. Munggur name: ‘mororáng’. KDB also observed males and female-plumaged individuals at Keki Lodge.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ptilonorhynchidae
- Genus
- Sericulus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Chapin
- Species
- bakeri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sericulus bakeri (Chapin, 1929) sec. Diamond & Bishop, 2021