<documentid="C98AA0E91B1E002C00B38E00D1DA01A0"ID-CLB-Dataset="298463"ID-DOI="10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2"ID-GBIF-Dataset="6028cf6b-e944-40d1-b774-7caa1c970409"ID-ISSN="2513-9894"ID-Zenodo-Dep="11642130"ID-ZooBank="805136AB-F3FE-4C77-85AC-E37423156B6D"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="carolina"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="carolina"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="carolina"IM.metadata_approvedBy="carolina"IM.tables_approvedBy="carolina"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="carolina"IM.treatments_approvedBy="carolina"checkinTime="1718072374117"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Bishop, K. David"docDate="2023"docId="03AB878AFFF7E11FA38FFA0FFE11FDBE"docLanguage="en"docName="BullBritOrnitholClub.143.1.3-62.pdf"docOrigin="Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1)"docStyle="DocumentStyle:EFA7F293C51FD4806C5290561C16F223.1:BullBritOrnitholClub.2017-.journal_article"docStyleId="EFA7F293C51FD4806C5290561C16F223"docStyleName="BullBritOrnitholClub.2017-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="1"docTitle="Tanysiptera riedelii J. Verreaux 1866"docType="treatment"docVersion="11"lastPageNumber="40"masterDocId="FF92FFF2FFD2E139A31FFFF7FFCAFF80"masterDocTitle="The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy"masterLastPageNumber="62"masterPageNumber="3"pageNumber="39"updateTime="1718322499255"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-NC-4.0">
<mods:titleid="81FB6A2D4692528EC40BEF5648948C17">The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy</mods:title>
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. 1986). This taxon’s distinct morphological and vocal differences combined with its geographical isolation support treatment as a species (
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, Beehler & Pratt 2016), although it clearly forms a superspecies with Common Paradise Kingfisher
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Endemic species. Although Ripley found this species only in deep forest along rocky streams on Supiori (
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), we found it widespread and common on both Supiori and Biak. For example, SvB found seven territories in
. Most vocal during early morning and late afternoon when it is regularly seen, singly, in pairs, and family groups of up to four. It inhabits all wooded habitats including primary lowland and foothill forest, selectively logged forest and mature secondary forest. It ranges from the ground, where it is regularly observed feeding in the leaf litter, to the canopy, through which it often flies when alarmed.
