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Yap Cicadabird
20100206000828
Male
Information
Range Yap, a small island cluster in the western Caroline Islands, and part of the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean.
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Passeriformes
Family Campephagidae
Genus Coracina
Species Coracina nesiotis

The Yap cicadabird (Coracina nesiotis), is a species of cuckooshrike in the Campephagidae family. It is endemic to Yap, a small island cluster in the western Caroline Islands, and part of the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. It inhabits the dry tropical forests there. It is sometimes considered to be a distinctive subspecies of the common cicadabird.

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