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Red-capped Myzomela (Myzomela lafargei)

Red-capped Myzomela
Museum specimen photograph: Pucheran, 1853 via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Red-capped Myzomela

The red-capped myzomela (Myzomela lafargei), also known as the scarlet-naped myzomela, is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in the Solomon Islands archipelago (Buka, Bougainville, the Shortland Islands, Fauro, Choiseul and Santa Isabel). Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Source: Red-capped myzomela on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 7 recordings for this species: 7 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.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Papua New Guinea in the xeno-canto catalogue.