Melipotes carolae
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| Melipotes carolae Beehler & Prawiradilaga, 200? |
The Melipotes carolae is a species of honeyeaters with a black plumage, bright orange bare facial skin, a black bill and an orange wattle under each eye.[1].
An Indonesian endemic, this honeyeater was discovered in December 2005. It is found in remote montane forests of Foja Mountains range, Western New Guinea at an altitude over 1,600 metres.
The first bird species found in New Guinea since 1939, the honeyeater was one of over twenty new species discovered by an international team of eleven scientists from Australia, Indonesia and the United States, led by an American ornithologist and Melanesia Conservation International vice-president Bruce Beehler.
The bird is named after the wife of Bruce Beehler, Carol Beehler.[2]
[edit] Trivia
- Melipotes carolae is depicted in Indonesian stamps[3] issued on November 6, 2006 along with the Golden-fronted Bowerbird, and two palm species native to Mamberamo, Licuala arbuscula and Livistona mamberamoensis.
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