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Helmeted Friarbird (Philemon buceroides)

Helmeted Friarbird
Photo: Aviceda via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Helmeted Friarbird

The helmeted friarbird (Philemon buceroides) is part of the Meliphagidae family. The helmeted friarbird, along with all their subspecies, is commonly referred to as "leatherhead" by the birding community.

Source: Helmeted friarbird on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Helmeted Friarbird. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:06) via xeno-canto.org/1177673, licensed CC BY — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea · xeno-canto lists 90 recordings for this species in total.

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