Blue jewel-babbler

Blue jewel-babbler
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cinclosomatidae
Genus:	Ptilorrhoa
Species:	P. caerulescens
Binomial name
Ptilorrhoa caerulescens (Temminck, 1836)

The blue jewel-babbler (Ptilorrhoa caerulescens) is a species of bird in the family Cinclosomatidae, endemic to New Guinea.

In Wampar, spoken among the people who live in Markham Valley of New Guinea, it is referred to as the birisis. ^[2] Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland rainforests, typically primary rather than secondary forests. ^[3]

Vocal behaviour

Its call consists of a series of rapid notes at a constant pitch; it starts loud and gets progressively louder. ^[4]

Subspecies

Source: ^[4]

• P. c. caerulescens
• P. c. neumanni
• P. c. nigricrissus
• P. c. geislerorum

References

1. BirdLife International 2017. Ptilorrhoa caerulescens (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T103693158A112514001. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103693158A112514001.en. Downloaded on 19 August 2019.
2. Fischer, Hans; Beer, Bettina (2021-12-09), "English–Wampar Finder List", Wampar–English Dictionary with an English–Wampar finder list, ANU Press, pp. 287–345, doi: 10.22459/wed.2021.03 , hdl: 1885/258970 , ISBN   978-1-76046-478-3
3. Hughes, Emma C.; Edwards, David P.; Sayer, Catherine A.; Martin, Philip A.; Thomas, Gavin H. (2020-05-05). "The effects of tropical secondary forest regeneration on avian phylogenetic diversity". Journal of Applied Ecology. 57 (7): 1351–1362. Bibcode:2020JApEc..57.1351H. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13639 . ISSN   0021-8901.
4. Diamond, Jared; Bishop, K. David; Sneider, Richard (2019-10-10). "An avifaunal double suture zone at the Bird's Neck Isthmus of New Guinea" . The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 131 (3): 435. doi:10.1676/18-167. ISSN   1559-4491. S2CID   204026687.