Long-billed Honeyeater

Long-billed Honeyeater
Long-billed Honeyeater
Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1884
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Melilestes
Salvadori, 1876
Species: M. megarhynchus
Binomial name
Melilestes megarhynchus
(Gray, 1858)
Synonyms
  • Ptilotis megalorhynchus

The Long-billed Honeyeater (Melilestes megarhynchus) is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Melilestes.[citation needed]

Distribution and habitat

It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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