Wattled Ploughbill

Taxobox
name = Wattled Ploughbill
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Pachycephalidae
genus = "Eulacestoma"
genus_authority = De Vis, 1894
species = "E. nigropectus"
binomial = "Eulacestoma nigropectus"
binomial_authority = De Vis, 1894The Wattled Ploughbill, "Eulacestoma nigropectus" is a small, approximately 14cm long, olive-brown songbird with a strong, thick, wedge-shaped black bill, used to into dead tree branches, bark and twigs in search for its insects diet. The sexes are different. The male has black underparts, black wings and a large circular pink wattle on the cheek. The female has olive green plumage and pale olive below. Only the adult male has wattles.

The only member of the monotypic genus "Eulacestoma", the Wattled Ploughbill is distributed and endemic to central mountain ranges of New Guinea. The diet consists mainly of insects.

Widespread throughout its large range, the Wattled Ploughbill is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

ee also

*Crested Shrike-tit

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). "Handbook of the Birds of the World". Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 9788496553422

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=5681&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=51091 IUCN Red List]