White-bellied cuckooshrike

White-bellied cuckooshrike
In Far North Queensland, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Campephagidae
Genus: Coracina
Species: C. papuensis
Binomial name
Coracina papuensis
(Gmelin, 1788)

The white-bellied cuckooshrike (Coracina papuensis) is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

At Kobble Creak

Taxonomy

The subspecies C. p. ingens is now usually considered a full species, the Manus cuckooshrike (Coracina ingens).

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