Wattled Ploughbill
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| Eulacestoma nigropectus De Vis, 1894 |
The Wattled Ploughbill, Eulacestoma nigropectus is a small, up to 14cm long, olive brown songbird with a strong, thick, wedge-shaped black bill, used to plough 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 wattles on cheek. The female has olive green plumage and pale olive below. Only adult male has wattles.
The only member of 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.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Eulacestoma nigropectus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 1 November 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
