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Centropus menbeki Lesson & Garnot, 1828
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SUMMARY
Adult huge, glossy black, with long tail, iris red, bill whitish with black base, legs black. Juvenile dull, blackish, with narrow rufous bars at base of tail, iris tan or orange. Race menbeki darker above, smaller; aruensis dark purplish black above; jobiensis less purplish, more greenish. Voice: Low. Pitched, resonant booming boots in staccato; single note “oodle”, also pairs of “hoo hoo”, and descending series of “Uh- oo- oo- oo- oo- oo- oh”; a grunt followed by a dry rattle. Calls at night.