Garnet Robin
Eugerygone rubra
A small bird of montane forest. Gray underparts and face, paler to whitish on the throat and belly, black wing with white flash and black tail with white outer tail feathers and tips to the undertail. Note the white eye-ring which is broader at the back. Male has a dark, reddish back and the female olive green. Distinctive horizontal posture and twitching wings and tail. No other similar-sized bird in this habitat have a white patch in the wing. Song, a repeated, high-pitch, tinkling “twiddle-dee”.
Taxonomy
The garnet robin was described by the English ornithologist, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, in 1879, from a specimen collected in the Arfak Mountains on the island of New Guinea. He coined the binomial name Pseudogerygone rubra. It was moved to the genus Eugerygone by the German naturalist, Otto Finsch, in 1901.
- Scientific name
- Eugerygone rubra
- Authority
- (Sharpe, 1879)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Acanthizidae
- Genus
- Eugerygone
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- stable
Photos
Distribution
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