Puff-backed honeyeater

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Puff-backed honeyeater
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Meliphaga
Species:
M. aruensis
Binomial name
Meliphaga aruensis
(Sharpe, 1884)

The puff-backed honeyeater (Meliphaga aruensis) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is widely spread throughout New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Meliphaga aruensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . IUCN. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.