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Papuan Cicadabird Edolisoma incertum Scientific name definitions

Barry Taylor
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2005

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HBW Alive

Field Identification

21–22 cm; 53–60 g. Male is slaty blue above, with lores, chin and feathers under eye black, ear-coverts and throat tinged blackish; upperwing-coverts, alula and remiges black, median and greater coverts and secondaries edged slaty blue; tail black, tipped ashy grey, outermost feather with ash-grey outer web, central two feathers ashy grey with subterminal black spot; entire underparts slaty blue, underwing-coverts and axillaries ashy grey; iris dark brown; bill and legs black. Differs from similar E. tenuirostre in smaller size, shorter bill, dark “shoulder”. Female is very like male but paler, axillaries and underwing-coverts barred grey and white, lacks black spot on central rectrices. Juvenile undescribed; immature like female, but ear-coverts, chin and throat streaked or flecked whitish, axillaries almost white, barred grey, lower abdomen indistinctly barred pale grey.

Systematics History

Sometimes considered conspecific with E. ceramense, E. mindanense and E. morio; may be closest to E. morio and E. remotum (1). Monotypic.

Subspecies

Monotypic.

Distribution

West Papuan Is (Waigeo, Batanta), mountains throughout New Guinea, and islands in Geelvink Bay (Mios Num, Yapen I).

Habitat

Hill forest and lower montane forest, forest edge and secondary growth, at 100–1800 m, usually 450–1450 m.

Movement

None recorded.

Diet and Foraging

Eats arthropods, including caterpillars and katydids (Tettigoniidae); also fruit. Forages in upper tree levels; perches on branches in outer canopy and peers at overhead foliage; occasionally hover-gleans.

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Song a series of 5–30 disyllabic, buzzy notes like sound of a cicada (Cicadidae), “weeyu-weeyu-weeyu” and so on; also has whistled “chewit” contact call.

Breeding

Females in breeding condition in Oct–Nov. No other information.

Conservation Status

Conservation status on Birdlife LC Least Concern
Not globally threatened. Widely distributed but local; fairly common to scarce. Poorly known species.
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Distribution of the Papuan Cicadabird

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Recommended Citation

Taylor, B. (2020). Papuan Cicadabird (Edolisoma incertum), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.papcus1.01
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