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Mountain Robin (Petroica bivittata)

Mountain Robin
Museum specimen photograph: De Vis, 1897 via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Mountain Robin

The mountain robin (Petroica bivittata), also known as subalpine robin, alpine robin or cloud-forest robin, is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. It is found sparsely throughout the New Guinea Highlands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subalpine shrubland. The robin eats insects, caught in flight. Two subspecies have been noted, Petroica bivittata bivittata and Petroica bivittata caudata.

Source: Mountain robin on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 8 recordings for this species: 4 CC BY-NC-ND · 4 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 Indonesia in the xeno-canto catalogue.

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This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.