Smoky Honeyeater

Smoky Honeyeater
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Meliphagidae
Genus:	Melipotes
Species:	M. fumigatus
Binomial name
Melipotes fumigatus Meyer, 1886

The Smoky Honeyeater (Melipotes fumigatus) is a species of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It is one of four species in the genus Melipotes, all closely related and forming a superspecies. After another similar species, the Wattled Smoky Honeyeater, was discovered in 2005 in the Foja Mountains it has also been called the Common Smoky Honeyeater.^[1]

The species is endemic to the island of New Guinea, where it occurs in the Central Ranges across the length of the island as well as two isolated populations on north west and north of the island. There are three subspecies; the nominate race occurs in the East Herzog Mountains and south east New Guinea, M. f. kumawa is restricted to the southern Bomberai Peninsula and M. f. goliathi ranges from the Weyland Mountains to the west Herzog mountains.

See also

• List of birds of Papua New Guinea

References

• Melipotes fumigatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved on 26 July 2007.

1. ^ Higgins, P.J.; Christidis, L.; Ford, H.A. (2008), "Family Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters)", in Josep, del Hoyo; Andrew, Elliott; David, Christie, Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 13, Penduline-tits to Shrikes, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 632–633, ISBN 978-84-96553-45-3 

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