Published March 9, 2021 | Version v1
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Sericulus bakeri

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.

Notes

Published as part of Diamond, Jared & Bishop, K. David, 2021, Avifauna of the Adelbert Mountains, New Guinea: why is Fire-maned Bowerbird Sericulus bakeri the mountains' only endemic bird species?, pp. 75-108 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 141 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v141i1.2021.a8, http://zenodo.org/record/12733989

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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