Campbell's Fairywren
Chenorhamphus campbelli
A small, little-known bird limited to lowland and foothill treefall gap regrowth in southwestern Papua New Guinea. Underparts and long, thick eyebrow pale blue. Back, wings and tail, brown. Prominent black eye-stripe, mustache stripe and crown stripe. Forages in pairs or small groups in dense undergrowth with rattans or sago. Does not co-occur with the similar Broad-billed Fairywren. Voice a reeling song of high-pitched notes.
Taxonomy
Formerly, this species was lumped with the broad-billed fairywren in the genus Malurus until a 2011 analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA showed high divergence between the two subspecies resulting in them being re-split into separate species. The study also found them to lie in a clade with the genera Sipodotus and Clytomyias leading to their subsequent re-classification in their own genus, Chenorhamphus. The species is named after Rob Campbell, of Dunfermline, Scotland, who identified it during his time in Papua New Guinea in the 1980s.
- Scientific name
- Chenorhamphus campbelli
- Authority
- (Schodde & Weatherly, 1982)
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- Genus
- Chenorhamphus
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