Western Crested Berrypecker
Paramythia olivaceavan Oort, ED, 1910
English (US) Western Crested Berrypecker
The Western Crested Berrypecker (Paramythia olivacea) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Paramythiidae (Tit Berrypecker and Crested Berrypeckers) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: montane west-central New GuineaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Paramythia olivacea
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Western Crested Berrypecker
- Described by
- van Oort, ED, 1910
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Paramythia montium olivaceum
- Described by
- van Oort, ED, 1910
- Type locality
- Hellwig Mountains, 2,600 m., and Oranje Mountains, 3,500 m., central New Guinea; restricted to Hellwig Mountains by Salomonsen, 1961, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 2067, p. 4.2
- Original description
- Notes from the Leyden Museum XXXII, Note XXIV p.213
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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