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Melanocharis
''Melanocharis'' is a genus of birds in the family Melanocharitidae that are endemic to New Guinea. Species The genus contains the following six species: * Obscure berrypecker (''Melanocharis arfakiana'') * Mid-mountain berrypecker (''Melanocharis longicauda'') * Black berrypecker (''Melanocharis nigra'') * Fan-tailed berrypecker (''Melanocharis versteri'') * Streaked berrypecker (''Melanocharis striativentris'') * Satin berrypecker The satin berrypecker ''(Melanocharis citreola)'', is a species of passerine bird belonging to the family Melanocharitidae. It is endemic to the montane cloud forests of Western New Guinea and was first identified in the Kumawa Mountains. It is o ... (''Melanocharis citreola'') References Bird genera Higher-level bird taxa restricted to New Guinea Melanocharitidae Taxa named by Philip Sclater Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Melanocharitidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanocharitidae
The Melanocharitidae, the berrypeckers and longbills, is a small bird family restricted to the forests of New Guinea. The family contains eleven species in four (sometimes three) genera. They are small songbirds with generally dull plumage but a range of body shapes. Taxonomy and systematics The identification of the family Melanocharitidae was not known or suspected until the work of Sibley and Ahlquist on the taxonomy of birds using DNA–DNA hybridization The genera had been instead placed with other families. The two genera of berrypecker had been placed inside the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae, and the longbills were once considered to be honeyeaters (which they closely resemble). Sibley and Ahlquist placed the berrypeckers and longbill family close to the painted berrypeckers (Paramythiidae), sunbirds and flowerpeckers, but a 2002 study found them closer to the satinbirds ( Cnemophilidae, a recent split from the birds-of-paradise). It comprises ten species in four gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanocharis
''Melanocharis'' is a genus of birds in the family Melanocharitidae that are endemic to New Guinea. Species The genus contains the following six species: * Obscure berrypecker (''Melanocharis arfakiana'') * Mid-mountain berrypecker (''Melanocharis longicauda'') * Black berrypecker (''Melanocharis nigra'') * Fan-tailed berrypecker (''Melanocharis versteri'') * Streaked berrypecker (''Melanocharis striativentris'') * Satin berrypecker The satin berrypecker ''(Melanocharis citreola)'', is a species of passerine bird belonging to the family Melanocharitidae. It is endemic to the montane cloud forests of Western New Guinea and was first identified in the Kumawa Mountains. It is o ... (''Melanocharis citreola'') References Bird genera Higher-level bird taxa restricted to New Guinea Melanocharitidae Taxa named by Philip Sclater Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Melanocharitidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan-tailed Berrypecker
The fan-tailed berrypecker (''Melanocharis versteri'') is a species of bird in the family Melanocharitidae. It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. The female is darker-colored and bigger than the male, an unusual feature for a passerine A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by th ... (Kikkawa 2003). References * External linksImage at ADW fan-tailed berrypecker, fan-tailed berrypecker Birds of New Guinea fan-tailed berrypecker Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Melanocharitidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid-mountain Berrypecker
The mid-mountain berrypecker or lemon-breasted berrypecker (''Melanocharis longicauda'') is a species of bird in the family Melanocharitidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f .... References mid-mountain berrypecker Birds of New Guinea mid-mountain berrypecker Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Melanocharitidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Berrypecker
The black berrypecker (''Melanocharis nigra'') is a species of bird in the family Melanocharitidae. It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Description TSMF is generally found in large, discont .... References black berrypecker Birds of New Guinea black berrypecker Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Melanocharitidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaked Berrypecker
The streaked berrypecker (''Melanocharis striativentris'') is a species of bird in the family Melanocharitidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucia .... References streaked berrypecker Birds of New Guinea streaked berrypecker Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Melanocharitidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satin Berrypecker
The satin berrypecker ''(Melanocharis citreola)'', is a species of passerine bird belonging to the family Melanocharitidae. It is endemic to the montane cloud forests of Western New Guinea and was first identified in the Kumawa Mountains. It is only the second species to be described in New Guinea in the last 80 years and the first endemic species from the region known as the Bird's Neck. The satin berrypecker is the sixth species to be described in the genus ''Melanocharis''. Based on the elevation of its discovery and the colors of its plumage, it was originally believed to be a close relative to the mid-mountain berrypecker, however genome-wide analysis revealed that it is a closer relative to the phenotypically dissimilar streaked berrypecker The streaked berrypecker (''Melanocharis striativentris'') is a species of bird in the family Melanocharitidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obscure Berrypecker
The obscure berrypecker (''Melanocharis arfakiana'') is a small passerine bird from the berrypecker family ''Melanocharitidae''. It was described by the German ornithologist Friedrich Finsch based on a specimen collected on the island of New Guinea (to which the berrypecker family is endemic); collected in 1867 in the Arfak Mountains (now in Papua). Another specimen was collected in 1933 in the mountains (950–1000 m) northwest of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea (BirdLife International 2006), these two specimens are the only confirmed records of the species. Unconfirmed sight records have been made in regions of New Guinea; these suggest that the species is not rare, and is a resident of disturbed forest, able to cope with human modification of its habitat. All these sightings were all made in the mountains (640-1,100 m), which is consistent with the range of the rest of the berrypeckers, only the black berrypecker has a lowland range (Beeher ''et al.'' 1986). Description The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Lutley Sclater
Philip Lutley Sclater (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an England, English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist, and identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for 42 years, from 1860–1902. Early life Sclater was born at Tangier Park, in Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire, where his father William Lutley Sclater had a country house. George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing was Philip's elder brother. Philip grew up at Hoddington House where he took an early interest in birds. He was educated in school at Twyford and at thirteen went to Winchester College and later Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he studied scientific ornithology under Hugh Edwin Strickland. In 1851 he began to study law and was admitted a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. In 1856 he travelled to America and visited Lake Superior and the upper St. Croix River (Wisconsin–Minnesota), St. Croix River, cano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. '' Panthera leo'' (lion) and '' Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. phylogenetic analysis should c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torres Strait, though both landmasses lie on the same continental shelf. Numerous smaller islands are located to the west and east. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the independent state of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea, forms a part of Indonesia and is organized as the provinces of Papua, Central Papua, Highland Papua, South Papua, Southwest Papua, and West Papua. The largest cities on the island are Jayapura (capital of Papua, Indonesia) and Port Moresby (capital of Papua New Guinea). Names The island has been known by various names: The name ''Papua'' was used to refer to parts of the island before contact with the West. Its etymology is unclear; one theory states that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bird Genera
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the bee hummingbird to the ostrich. There are about ten thousand living species, more than half of which are passerine, or "perching" birds. Birds have whose development varies according to species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds. Wings, which are modified forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to the loss of flight in some birds, including ratites, penguins, and diverse endemic island species. The digestive and respiratory systems of birds are also uniquely adapted for flight. Some bird species of aquatic environments, particularly seabirds and some waterbirds, have further evolved for swimmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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