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 LC    New Zealand Bellbird* Id (Atlas):
    Anthornis melanura

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
New Zealand Bellbird, The Bellbird, New Zealand Bell, Three Kings Bellbird (obscura), Chatham Bellbird (melanocephala), Chatham Island Bellbird (melanocephala)

Family
Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sparrman, 1786)

Habitat
Temperate forest.

Range (Guide)
New Zealand (B).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (66)...)

 
New Zealand Bellbird (Anthornis melanura) [XC855719]
     by George Armistead from Wainui Bay, Golden Bay, Tasman District, Tasman, New Zealand (song)

 
New Zealand Bellbird (Anthornis melanura) [XC428661]
     by Hugo Caverzasi from Dundas St, 118 (near Dunedin), Dunedin City, Otago, New Zealand (call, morning call)

Eggs (Guide)
3 - 4; pinkish-white to deep pink, blotched and spotted with pink. Incubation: about 14 days; by female only.

Young
Fledge in about 14 days.

Subspecies
Distinctive Chatham Is subspecies melanocephala (large, dark, yellow-eyed), sometimes treated as a separate species, is extinct. Nominate subspecies exhibits slight clinal variation, becoming darker from north to south. Proposed subspecies dumerilii (from Bay of Islands, on North I, in New Zealand) and incoronata (Auckland Is) considered inseparable from nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • melanura (Sparrman, 1786)   -  New Zealand, including many offshore islands; Auckland Is. .
  • obscura Falla, 1948   -  Three Kings Is, Nwest of northern North I (New Zealand).
  • oneho Bartle & Sagar, 1987   -  Poor Knights Is, east of N North I.



References
See References.


Files:
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