| Black-billed Sicklebill | |
|---|---|
 Male | |
| Information | |
| Common Name | Buffly-tailed Sicklebill |
| Range | New Guinea |
| Scientific Classification | |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Aves |
| Order | Passeriformes |
| Family | Paradisaeidae |
| Genus | Drepanornis |
| Species | Drepanornis albertisi |
| Conservation Status | |
 Least Concern | |
The Black-billed sicklebill (Drepanornis albertiti), also known as buffly-tailed sicklebill (leading to easy confusion with the hermit hummingbird Eutoxeres condamini), is a species of bird-of-paradise.
Etymology[]
The scientific name commemorates the Italian naturalist Luigi Maria d'Albertis, who discovered this species in 1872.
Description[]
The black-billed sicklebill is medium-sized, about 35 cm long, brown. The male has a bare maroon grey skin around its eye, buff colored tail, dark brown iris, yellow mouth and black sickle-like bill. It is adorned with dark horn-like forecrown feathers, an erectile fan-like bronze neck plumes and elongated purple-tipped flank plumes. Unadorned brown female is smaller with bill longer than male and dark barred below.
Distribution[]
The black-billed sicklebill is distributed to mountain forests of New Guinea.
Biology[]
Its diet consists mainly of fruit and arthropods. The female lays one to two pale cream eggs with brown and grey spots.
Subspecies[]
| Name | |
|---|---|
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Drepanornis albertisi albertisi
(Sclater, 1873) |
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Drepanornis albertisi cervinicauda
(Sclater, 1884) |
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Drepanornis albertisi geisleri
(Meyer, 1893) |
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Conservation Status[]
Widespread throughout its large range, the black-billed sicklebill is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.