Tanysiptera nympha
Both sexes blue-black crown and UpP, bright pink-red rump and UnP, tail purple-blue, elongated central feather 8 cm longer with broad white tips and often with narrow white inner margins at base, bill orange-red, iris dark brown, legs and feet pink-orange to red. Voice: 1-4 mournful whistles, becoming a trill, similar to that of T.danae.
Not Threatened.
Both sexes blue-black crown and UpP, bright pink-red rump and UnP, tail purple-blue, elongated central feather 8 cm longer with broad white tips and often with narrow white inner margins at base, bill orange-red, iris dark brown, legs and feet pink-orange to red. Voice: 1-4 mournful whistles, becoming a trill, similar to that of T.danae.
VOICE: 1-4 mournful whistles, becoming a trill, similar to that of T.danae.
30-35 cm, including tail streamers, male 57 g, female 47-57 g
Taxonomy:
- Tanysiptera Nympha G. R. Gray, 1840, New Guinea = Vogelkop Peninsula. Forms a superspecies with T. danae. Proposed race rothschildi (Huon Peninsula) now considered invalid. Monotypic. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Distribution:
- New Guinea, in two disjunct populations: in W in Vogelkop Peninsula (E to Geelvink and Etna Bays), and in NE from Adelbert Mts E to Huon Peninsula and S to upper R Watut and Bulolo Valley.
Lowland feorest and ravines in forest hills, mainly below 900 m, occasionally up to 1500m, also tall secondary growth and riverine and mangrove forest.
Insect, larvae, and possibly earthworms. Perches solitarily on low horizontal branches in understorey.
Undated cluch of 2 eggs. No other information.