Common Cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre)
About the Common Cicadabird
The Sahul cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre), previously known as the common cicadabird or slender-billed cicadabird, is a species of passerine bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Australia, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. Its natural habitats are temperate forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. The species is placed in the reinstated genus Edolisoma by most authors. The common cicadabird was described as a "great speciator" by Mayr & Diamond (2001); and Pedersen et al. (2018) described how this species rapidly colonized and diversified across the Indo-Pacific island region and Australia in the Pleistocene. Six subspecies are recognised: E. t. nehrkorni Salvadori, 1890 – Waigeo (Raja Ampat Islands, northwest of New Guinea; known from one specimen)
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 68 recordings for this species: 31 CC BY-NC-ND · 22 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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