Noisy Friarbird

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Noisy Friarbird

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Philemon
Species: P. corniculatus
Binomial name
Philemon corniculatus
Latham, 1790

The Noisy Friarbird, Philemon corniculatus is a friarbird that inhabits much of New Guinea and eastern Australia. Its black head is completely bald.

It is sometimes known as a "Leatherhead" (Child care worker, Tin Can Bay, Queensland, 2006)

At nest
At nest

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