Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Tanimbar Friarbird (Philemon plumigenis) - HBW 13, p. 679
French: Polochion des Tanimbar
German: Tanimbarlederkopf
Spanish: Filemón de las Tanimbar
Taxonomy: Tropidorhynchus plumigenis G. R. Gray, 1858, Kai Islands, Moluccas.
Forms a superspecies with P. fuscicapillus, P. subcorniculatus, P. moluccensis, P. buceroides, P. cockerelli, P. eichhorni and P. albitorques. Formerly suggested that all may belong to a single species, or that present species may be conspecific with first three of these. Usually treated as race of P. moluccensis, but this arrangement inconsistent biogeographically and morphologically with present treatment of other taxa within the superspecies, as P. subcorniculatus and P. moluccensis (of, respectively, Seram and Buru) are.. View all taxonomy...
Forms a superspecies with P. fuscicapillus, P. subcorniculatus, P. moluccensis, P. buceroides, P. cockerelli, P. eichhorni and P. albitorques. Formerly suggested that all may belong to a single species, or that present species may be conspecific with first three of these. Usually treated as race of P. moluccensis, but this arrangement inconsistent biogeographically and morphologically with present treatment of other taxa within the superspecies, as P. subcorniculatus and P. moluccensis (of, respectively, Seram and Buru) are more similar to each other than either is to present species. Proposed race timorlaoensis (Timorlaut, in Tanimbar Is) considered synonymous with plumigenis. Monotypic.
Distribution: Kai Is (Kai Kecil and Kai Besar) and Tanimbar Is (Larat and Yamdena), in E Banda Sea.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Two birds perched in a tree, then flying and chasing each other. Locality Tanimbar Islands, Lesser Sundas (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 November 2011 14 weeks ago 13 sec 3.3 -
A bird perched in a tree and flying away. Locality Tanimbar Islands, Lesser Sundas (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 November 2011 14 weeks ago 9 sec 2.5
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A bird perched in a tree.
Locality Tanimbar Islands, Lesser Sundas (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 November 2011 14 weeks ago 2
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Song by one bird, at the end mixed by three calls of Wallacean Drongo. Locality Tanimbar Islands, Lesser Sundas
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 November 2011 14 weeks ago 4 -
Calls by one individual. Locality Tanimbar Islands, Lesser Sundas
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 November 2011 14 weeks ago 4 -
An individual singing. Locality Tanimbar Islands, Lesser Sundas
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 November 2011 14 weeks ago 4
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