Yellow-breasted Boatbill (Machaerirhynchus flaviventer) [XC557694]
by Frank Rheindt from Upper Nena River, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (song)
Yellow-breasted Boatbill (Machaerirhynchus flaviventer) [XC517545]
by David Edwards from Black Mountain Road, Kuranda, Australia (song)
Nest
Saucer-shaped, composed of dried stalks of flowering plants, matted with cobweb, the inner portion consisting almost entirely of fine dried tendrils of plants, placed in the angle of a thin horizontal forked branch of a bushy tree.
Eggs (Guide)
2; slightly lustrous, white, dotted and spotted with shades of red and purple, concentrated at the larger end; oval; about 17 x 13 mm. Incubation: probably more than 14 days; by both sexes.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous.
Subspecies
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
albifrons Gray, GR, 1862 - Waigeo, in western Papuan Is.
albigula Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee, 1939 - Western Papuan Is (Salawati, Misool) and western and north-central New Guinea.
novus Rothschild & Hartert, 1912 - North-eastern New Guinea.
xanthogenys Gray, GR, 1858 - Southern and south-eastern New Guinea and Aru Is.
flaviventer Gould, 1851 - Northern Australia (northern and eastern Cape York Peninsula).
secundus Mathews, 1912 - North-eastern Queensland (Shipton's Flat inland to Atherton Tablelands, and south to Townsville area).
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Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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