Oreornis chrysogenys [van Oort, 1910 ]

Oreornis chrysogenys van Oort, 1910

Oreornis chrysogenys

Conservation status:

Not Threatened

Phylogeny:

Taxonomy: Oreornis chrysogenys van Oort, 1910, Oranje Mountains (4150 m), New Guinea. Sometimes placed in genus Lichenostomus or Meliphaga. Monotypic. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)

Trophic strategy:

Feeds mostly on insects and other invertebrates, but also eats nectar and fruit from native and exotic plants. It forages in pairs or noisy flocks of up to seven birds (occasionally many more) on the bark and limbs of trees, as well as on flowers and foliage. These flocks tend to exclude other birds from the feeding area, but they do feed in association with other species such as Yellow-throated Miners and Little Friarbirds.
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Oreornis chrysogenys

General description:

Orange-cheaked Honeyeater

Other common names: Small Mountain Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Oreornis chrysogenys van Oort, 1910, Oranje Mountains (4150 m), New Guinea.

Has head and neck dark olive to olive-grey with dark brown to blackish mottling on top, black fore supercilium and lores enclosing small patch of silvery grey in front of eye, short narrow black streak behind eye, conspicuous golden-yellow to orange-yellow cheek patch extending from beneath eye to rear ear-coverts, finely edged below by diffuse blackish malar area and fine blackish line beneath and behind rear of patch.

Diagnostic description:

Has head and neck dark olive to olive-grey with dark brown to blackish mottling on top, black fore supercilium and lores enclosing small patch of silvery grey in front of eye, short narrow black streak behind eye, conspicuous golden-yellow to orange-yellow cheek patch extending from beneath eye to rear ear-coverts, finely edged below by diffuse blackish malar area and fine blackish line beneath and behind rear of patch (partly divided by notch of black extending down from eyestripe); silvery grey chin washed olive; upperparts dark olive to olive-grey, paler and greyer on rump and paler olive on uppertail-coverts, diffuse dusky mottling on mantle and back; greater upperwing coverts dusky, Dark yellow-olive outer edges and tips of outer coverts, remiges blackish-brown with conspicuous yellow-olive outer edges (forming largely olive lower wing, contrastingly paler than upperparts); uppertail brownish-olive with dark olive centre, yellow-olive outer edges of rectrices; underbody greyish-olive, paler than upperparts, grading to pale olive-grey on flanks, belly and vent, faintly mottled or streaked slightly darker on throat, brest and fore flanks: undertail –coverts buff with olive wash, thighs yellowish-olive, undertail olive-grey; underwing pale buff, chestnut-orange patch at angle of wing and dark trailing edge and tip; iris red-brown to dark brown or greybrown; bill black, fine and indistinct yellow gape-line; legs yellow. Sexes alike in plumage, male larger than female. Juvenile undescribed.

Behaviour:

VOICE: Calls include single bubbling note that rises in pitch and wheezy downslurred “nnyau”.

Size:

24-26 cm; one male 77 g, one female 62 g

Phylogeny:

Sometimes placed in genus Lichenostomus or Meliphaga. Monotypic.

Distribution:

Upper slopes of Snow Mts and Oranje Mts (including Mt Carstensz and Mt Wilhelmina), in W New Guinea.

Habitat:

Subalpine forest and shrubland bordering alpine grassland, and commonly in ecotome between these, also patches of these habitats within grassland. In Mt Carstensz Range, one seen on ground in wet swamp-meadow dominated by tussock grasses and sedge at edge of subalpine forest of Dacrycarpus compactus, Rapanea and other low moss covered trees. Recorded at 3225- 4000 m, mainly above 3250 m; occasionally as low as 2450 m.

Trophic strategy:

Takes fruit, arthropods (insects), and seeds of sedges. Often forages in low shrubland or thickets away from closed forest and on ground in wet tussock grassland-sedgeland.

Reproduction:

Poorly known. Mare in breeding condition and nest with egg in Aug. Single nest found, a basin-like cup, loosely made outer layer mainly of coarse moss and lichens, firm inner layer mainly of grass stems and some fern stems, thick lining of scales and plant down from fronds of tree-ferns and a few feathers, external diameter 20 cm, depth 11 cm, internal diameter 9.5 cm, depth 5 cm, supported on bases of several fronds of tree-fern 1.5 m above ground in scattered clump in alpine grassland (c. 150 m from forest); contained 1 egg (not certainly known to be complete clutch).
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Orange-cheeked honeyeater:

The orange-cheeked honeyeater (Oreornis chrysogenys) is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Oreornis.^[2] It is endemic to West Papua, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b BirdLife International (2012). "Oreornis chrysogenys". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
^ "ITIS Report: Oreornis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 March 2013.

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Orange-cheaked Honeyeater

Other common names: Small Mountain Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Oreornis chrysogenys van Oort, 1910, Oranje Mountains (4150 m), New Guinea.

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Orange-cheaked Honeyeater

Other common names: Small Mountain Honeyeater
Taxonomy: Oreornis chrysogenys van Oort, 1910, Oranje Mountains (4150 m), New Guinea.

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Has head and neck dark olive to olive-grey with dark brown to blackish mottling on top, black fore supercilium and lores enclosing small patch of silvery grey in front of eye, short narrow black streak behind eye, conspicuous golden-yellow to orange-yellow cheek patch extending from beneath eye to rear ear-coverts, finely edged below by diffuse blackish malar area and fine blackish line beneath and behind rear of patch (partly divided by notch of black extending down from eyestripe); silvery grey chin washed olive; upperparts dark olive to olive-grey, paler and greyer on rump and paler olive on uppertail-coverts, diffuse dusky mottling on mantle and back; greater upperwing coverts dusky, Dark yellow-olive outer edges and tips of outer coverts, remiges blackish-brown with conspicuous yellow-olive outer edges (forming largely olive lower wing, contrastingly paler than upperparts); uppertail brownish-olive with dark olive centre, yellow-olive outer edges of rectrices; underbody greyish-olive, paler than upperparts, grading to pale olive-grey on flanks, belly and vent, faintly mottled or streaked slightly darker on throat, brest and fore flanks: undertail –coverts buff with olive wash, thighs yellowish-olive, undertail olive-grey; underwing pale buff, chestnut-orange patch at angle of wing and dark trailing edge and tip; iris red-brown to dark brown or greybrown; bill black, fine and indistinct yellow gape-line; legs yellow. Sexes alike in plumage, male larger than female. Juvenile undescribed.

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Range:

W-central New Guinea (timberline zone of Snow Mts.).

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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VOICE: Calls include single bubbling note that rises in pitch and wheezy downslurred “nnyau”.

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Upper slopes of Snow Mts and Oranje Mts (including Mt Carstensz and Mt Wilhelmina), in W New Guinea.

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Not Threatened

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24-26 cm; one male 77 g, one female 62 g

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New Guinea Birds

Species

Oreornis chrysogenys van Oort, 1910

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