Pale-billed Sicklebill

The Pale-billed Sicklebill is distributed to lowland rainforests of northwestern New Guinea. Its diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods.

The Pale-billed Sicklebill is classified as Near Threatened (NT), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.

The Pale-billed Sicklebill, Epimachus bruijnii, is a medium-sized, up to 35 cm long, olive brown bird of paradise. The male has a bare purple grey skin around its eye, brown iris, pale sickle-like bill, an iridescent red and purple-tipped upper breast plumes, blue and green-tipped ornamental lower breast feathers and purple small horn-like brow feathers. Unadorned female is smaller and paler than male. The Pale-billed Sicklebill is distributed to lowland rainforests of northwestern New Guinea. More

Pale-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis bruijnii) = French: Paradisier à bec blanc German: Braunschwanz-Paradieshopf Spanish: Ave-del-paraíso Piquiblanca Other common names: White-billed/Lowland Sicklebill, White-billed/Bruijn's Bird-of-paradise, White-billed Sicklebill(ed) Bird-of-paradise Taxonomy: Drepanornis Bruijnii Oustalet, 1880, coast of Geelvink Bay between 136° 30' and 137° of longitude, New Guinea. Genus sometimes subsumed in Epimachus. Possibly forms a superspecies with D. albertisi. Monotypic. More

Pálido, Pale-billed Sicklebill, Drepanormis bruijnii. Pico Corvo Negro, Black Sicklebill, Epimachus fastuosus. Pico ... http://www.aviceda.org/abid/birdimages.php?action=birdfamily&fid=69 Australian Bird Image Database- All Images: Epimachus bruijnii - Pale-billed Sicklebill. Epimachus fastuosus - Black Sicklebill. Epimachus meyeri - Brown Sicklebill. Eulacestoma ... http://www.aviceda.org/abid/news.php?nid=13 Australian Bird Image Database- News: ...tailed Drongo Epimachus albertisi - Black-billed Sicklebill Epimachus bruijnii - Pale-billed Sicklebill Epimachus fastuosus - Black Sicklebill Epimachus meyeri ... http://www.oiseaux.net/liste/paradisaeidae. More

the Pale-billed Sicklebill is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES. Copyright: Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia.org - Photo, Video and/or Article contributions are welcome! Please click here for info The Avianweb strives to maintain accurate and up-to-date information; however, mistakes do happen. More

Pale-billed Sicklebill in between. Moreover, while sitting quietly in the forest, admiring the full array of display postures of these most magnificent of feathered life forms, we also stand an excellent chance of seeing other hot stuff like Northern Cassowary, Brown-collared Talegalla, New Guinea Megapode, Cinnamon Ground-Dove, Thick-billed Ground-Pigeon, or Victoria Crowned-Pigeon casually walking by. More

Pale-billed Sicklebill Free bird watcher discussion forum and photo, galleries. View photographs of birds in the wild, discuss bird topics, ... www.birdforum.net/opus/Pale-billed_Sicklebill Impressive Courtship Dance of the Black Sickle Bill Bird of ... Sep 28, 2009 ... Impressive Courtship Dance of the Black Sickle Bill Bird of Paradise. Topic Categories: Behavior scienceblogs.com/.../2009/.../impressive_courtship_dance_of.php Epimachus speciosus Bodd. More

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Paradisaeidae
Genus : Epimachus
Species : bruijnii
Authority : (Oustalet, 1880)