The Papuan logrunner or New Guinea logrunner (''Orthonyx novaeguineae'') is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class (biology), class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the Oviparity, laying of Eggshell, hard-shelled eggs, a high Metabolism, metabolic rate, a fou ...

in the family

Orthonychidae Orthonychidae is a clade of passerine birds Endemic (ecology), endemic to Australia and New Guinea. It encompasses the genus ''Orthonyx'', including the logrunners and the chowdilla. Some authorities consider the Australian family Cinclosomatida ...

. It was formerly considered

conspecific Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species. Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that "Biological specificity is the set of characteristics of living organism ...

with the

Australian logrunner The Australian logrunner (''Orthonyx temminckii'') is a species of bird that is Endemism, endemic to eastern Australia where it uses unique foraging techniques and adaptations to search for its food on the floors of temperate, subtropical, or tr ...

Habitat and Location

It is found in the highlands of

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

. Its natural

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is 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 lapse rate, fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is ...

References

Papuan logrunner The Papuan logrunner or New Guinea logrunner (''Orthonyx novaeguineae'') is a species of bird in the family Orthonychidae. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Australian logrunner. Habitat and Location It is found in the highlands of ...

Birds of the New Guinea Highlands

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