Chrysococcyx ruficollis

General description: 

Adult greenish above, with forehead, face, throat and breast rufous, barred white and green below; iris from reddish brown in male to brown in female, bill black, feet olive grey, Juvenile greenish above, grey below, flanks faintly barred grey, iris dark brown. Voice: Song 8- 9 sec, higher- pitched than song of C. meyeri.

Conservation status: 

Not Threatened.

Diagnostic description: 

Adult greenish above, with forehead, face, throat and breast rufous, barred white and green below; iris from reddish brown in male to brown in female, bill black, feet olive grey, Juvenile greenish above, grey below, flanks faintly barred grey, iris dark brown. Voice: Song 8- 9 sec, higher- pitched than song of C. meyeri.

Behaviour: 

Size: 

16 cm; 23,5 g (laying female).

Phylogeny: 

Taxonomy:

    Lamprococcyx ruficollis Salvadori, 1875, Hatam, Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. Asian and Australasian forms of Chrysococcyx sometimes placed in genus Chalcites. Monotypic. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Distribution: 

Distribution:

    New Guinea.
Habitat: 

Montane forest and edge in New Guinea highlandds; mainly at 1800- 2600 m, up to 3350 m.

Trophic strategy: 

Insects, mainly caterpillars, also flying insects. Joins mixed- species flocks of foraging birds; sits motionless, staring and peering about for insects under small branches, then moves and seizes the insect.

Reproduction: 

No information available. Presumably brood- parasitic.

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith