Drepanornis is a genus of bird-of-paradise found in forests of New Guinea.[2] They have long decurved sickle-like bills and an overall brown plumage.[3]
| Drepanornis | |
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| Black-billed sicklebill (Drepanornis albertisi) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Paradisaeidae |
| Genus: | Drepanornis P.L. Sclater, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| Drepanephorus albertisi[1] P.L. Sclater, 1873
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The genus is sometimes considered a subgenus of Epimachus, but the two members of Drepanornis have a far shorter tail and their sexual dimorphism is less extreme.[4]
Species
edit- Black-billed sicklebill, Drepanornis albertisi.
- Pale-billed sicklebill, Drepanornis bruijnii.
References
edit- ^ "Paradisaeidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ Brett Hartl (2016-10-08), West Papua Birds of Paradise, archived from the original on 2021-12-14, retrieved 2019-06-03
- ^ "Black-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis albertisi) :: xeno-canto". www.xeno-canto.org. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- ^ Frith, Clifford; Frith, Dawn (2020). Del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Sargatal, Jordi; Christie, David; De Juana, Eduardo (eds.). "Black-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis albertisi)". Birds of the World. doi:10.2173/bow.blbsic1.01. S2CID 216394848. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
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