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The Manus friarbird (Philemon albitorques) or white-naped friarbird, also known as the chauka ('souka' in Lele, the local language [2]) is a species of bird in the Honeyeater family, or Meliphagidae. [3] It is endemic to the Manus Province [4] of Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Honeyeaters and the Australian chats make up the family Meliphagidae.They are a large and diverse family of small to medium-sized birds most common in Australia and New Guinea, but also found in New Zealand, the Pacific islands as far east as Samoa and Tonga, and the islands to the north and west of New Guinea known as Wallacea.
The California quail is the official state bird of California. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1] Additional accidental and hypothetical species have been added from different sources.
Printable version; In other projects Appearance. ... Manus dwarf kingfisher; Manus friarbird; Manus masked owl; Manus monarch; Maria's bird-of-paradise; Meek's pygmy ...
Additionally, the single member of the genus Melitograis is called the white-streaked friarbird. Friarbirds are found in Australia , Papua New Guinea , eastern Indonesia , and New Caledonia . They eat nectar , insects and other invertebrates , flowers, fruit, and seeds.
The forests of Northern California are home to many animals, for instance the American black bear.There are between 25,000 and 35,000 black bears in the state. [6]The forests in northern parts of California have an abundant fauna, which includes for instance the black-tailed deer, black bear, gray fox, North American cougar, bobcat, and Roosevelt elk.
The coast of California north of San Francisco contains the Northern California coastal forests (as defined by the WWF) and the southern section of the Coast Range ecoregion (as defined by the EPA). This ecoregion is dominated by redwood forest , containing the tallest and some of the oldest trees in the world.
The California Field Atlas is a 2017 book written and illustrated by Obi Kaufmann.It was published by Heyday Books, a Berkeley-based nonprofit small press.Through passages of nature writing and hundreds of watercolor paintings, the book details California's ecology and geography.