New Ireland Friarbird
Other common names: Eichhorn’s/Helmeted(!) Friarbird
Taxonomy: Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and E. J. O. Hartert,
Not Threatened
New Ireland Friarbird
Other common names: Eichhorn’s/Helmeted(!) Friarbird
Taxonomy: Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and E. J. O. Hartert,
Philemon eichhorni Rothschild and E. J. O. Hartert, 1924, hills of south-west New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago. Forms a superspecies with P. fuscicapillus, P. subcorniculatus, P. moluccensis, P. plumigenis, P. buceroides, P. cockerelli and P. albitorques. Formerly suggested that all may belong to a single species. Monotypic.
(source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Fruit, nectar and insect. Mainly in uppers canopy, at times descending to upper levels of middle stage of lower in dense secondary growth. Forages mainly in dense outer or upper foliage of crowns of trees, but sometimes in leafless trees. Often in flowering trees.