Tit berrypecker

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Tit berrypecker
Oreocharis arfaki - The Birds of New Guinea (cropped).jpg
Illustration by John Gould and W. Hart

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paramythiidae
Genus: Oreocharis
Salvadori, 1876
Species:
O. arfaki
Binomial name
Oreocharis arfaki
(A.B. Meyer, 1875)

The tit berrypecker (Oreocharis arfaki) is a species of bird in the family Paramythiidae. First described by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1875, it is monotypic within the genus Oreocharis.[2] It is found in the New Guinea Highlands and more scarcely in northern parts of the island, in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b BirdLife International (2012). "Oreocharis arfaki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ^ "ITIS Report: Oreocharis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 January 2017.


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