Everything about The Brown Sicklebill totally explained
The
Brown Sicklebill,
Epimachus meyeri is a large, up to 96cm long, dark brown and black
bird of paradise with highly iridescent plumages, a sickle-shaped bill, pale blue
iris and brown underparts. The male is adorned with ornamental plumes on the sides of its breast and a huge
sabre-shaped central tail feathers that are highly prized by natives. The female is a reddish brown bird with buff barred black below.
The Brown Sicklebill is distributed to mountain forests of
New Guinea, Its appearance resembles the closely related and larger
Black Sicklebill. In areas where these two large sicklebills met, the Brown Sicklebill replaced the latter species in higher altitudes. Its diet consists mainly of fruits,
arthropods and small animals.
This bird was discovered by
Carl Hunstein in 1884 and named after
Adolf Bernard Meyer of
Dresden Museum,
Germany.
The Brown Sicklebill is evaluated as Least Concern on the
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of
CITES.
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