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Brown sicklebill Brown sicklebill,Epimachus meyeri,Geotagged,Papua New Guinea,Summer Click/tap to enlarge

Brown sicklebill

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  1. View Annette Flottwell's profile
    Annette Flottwell
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    what a fascinating bird, lovely how you got the open bill! Posted 9 years ago
    1. View Tarsier's profile
      Tarsier
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      Thank's Annette. It's place behind the lodge, where they get rid of fruit leftovers;-). Posted 9 years ago

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The Brown sicklebill

The brown sicklebill is a species of bird-of-paradise.

The brown sicklebill is distributed to mountain forests of New Guinea, Its appearance resembles the closely related and larger black sicklebill. In areas where these two large sicklebills met, the brown sicklebill replaced the latter species in higher altitudes. Its diet consists mainly of fruits, arthropods and small animals.

This bird was discovered by Carl Hunstein in 1884 and named after Adolf Bernard Meyer of Dresden.. more

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Similar species: Perching Birds
Species identified by Tarsier
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By Tarsier

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Uploaded Dec 21, 2015. Captured Feb 16, 2008 00:18 in Kupanda Street, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea.
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  • Canon EOS 50D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/512s
  • ISO1000
  • 400mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.