- Rusty Pitohui
Taxobox
name = Rusty Pitohui
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=51088|title=Pitohui ferrugineus|downloaded=1 November 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern]
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Passeriformes
familia =Colluricinclidae
genus = "Pitohui "
species = "P. ferrugineus"
binomial = "Pitohui ferrugineus"
binomial_authority = (Bonaparte, 1850)The Rusty Pitohui, "Pitohui ferrugineus" is a medium-sized, approximately 28cm long, rusty brownsongbird with a strong black bill, pale iris and yellowish-buff below. It is the largest member of its family. Both sexes are similar.The Rusty Pitohui is distributed and endemic to lowland and hill forests of
New Guinea ,Aru Island andWest Papua n islands. The subspecies "P. f. leucorhynchus" and "P. f. fuscus" ofWaigeo andBatanta islands offWestern New Guinea has whitish bill.The Rusty Pitohui is usually seen in small parties, mixed with other gregarious species. It builds a deep, cup-shaped nest of sticks, leaves and stems in a fork of a tree.
Widespread and common throughout its habitat range, the Rusty Pitohui is evaluated as Least Concern on the
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.References
External links
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5678&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
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