ML184087381
Contributor
Peter Burke Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Sera (formerly Crater Mountain) Biological Research Station
Chimbu, Papua New Guinea
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Tags
- Field notes/sketch; No bird
Observation details
They liked to stay hidden among the grasses, occasionally coming out from the foliage. Here I could see one of them inserting its bill into the stem of a ginger-like leaf, pulling out pulp and eating it. It also took grass seeds simultaneously during the foraging. During the observation, they made a very American Goldfinch-like feeding call; soft notes, quietly given as they hopped in the foliage. They seemed to display mostly field-marks mainly of Lonchura tristissima, but with buffy-orange flanks, white spotting on the back, wing-coverts and tertials - features, according to Beehler et al., of White-spotted (Manakin) Munia.
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