Long-billed honeyeater

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Long-billed honeyeater
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Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1884
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Melilestes
Salvadori, 1876
Species:
M. megarhynchus
Binomial name
Melilestes megarhynchus
(Gray, 1858)
Synonyms
  • Ptilotis megalorhynchus

The long-billed honeyeater (Melilestes megarhynchus) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is monotypic within the genus Melilestes. [2]

Distribution and habitat

It is found in New Guinea and offshore islands, [1] where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. [1] Long-billed honeyeaters do not migrate [1] . The average generation length of it is 5.8 years. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 BirdLife International (2018). "Melilestes megarhynchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T22703934A130242300. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22703934A130242300.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ↑ "ITIS Report: Melilestes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 24 November 2014.


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