Family Quail-thrushes and Jewel-babblers (Cinclosomatidae)
Least Concern
Dimorphic Jewel-babbler (Ptilorrhoa geislerorum)
Taxonomy
French: Ptilorrhoa des Geisler German: Braunnackenflöter Spanish: Zordala de los Geisler
Taxonomy:
Eupetes geislerorum
A. B. Meyer
, 1892,Butaueng, north-east New Guinea
.Distribution:
NE New Guinea in Adelbert Mts and Huon Gulf E to Collingwood Bay.
Descriptive notes
22–23 cm. Male has crown dull greyish-brown with bluish tinge, browner on nape, rest of upperparts rich blue; lores black, broad black band through and below orbit to... read more
Voice
Song a long series of whistled bell-like notes, starting short and faint, becoming longer, louder... read more
Habitat
Forest in lowlands and hills, mainly to 700–800 m; to at least 1220 m in Adelbert Mts, where... read more
Food and feeding
Insects and other small animals, including frogs. Terrestrial forager; walks along on ground while tossing leaves aside.
Breeding
Territorial. No data on nest and clutch size; eggs clay-yellow to reddish-grey with smudged yellowish-grey and grey-brownish spots, and... read more
Movements
Probably sedentary.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. Fairly common to common, but quite shy; heard far more often than seen.
Conventionally considered conspecific with P. caerulescens, but the two are separated altitudinally in N New Guinea (inland from Madang); they also differ in behaviour, vocalizations and female plumage. Monotypic.