Cracticus cassicus (Boddaert, 1783)

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 46

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:805136AB-F3FE-4C77-85AC-E37423156B6D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11646159
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB878A-FFFE-E115-A38F-FED6FB8CFD84
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Cracticus cassicus
status

Treatment

HOODED BUTCHERBIRD Cracticus cassicus View in CoL #

Local name Man Kowo[k] (Kuneff, Sansundi; Soeparno 1977).

Range C. c. cassicus Biak, Supiori, Numfor, Yapen, Kurudu.

Status Resident. Obtained by four collectors and recorded by most visitors. Widespread and common in degraded, selectively logged and primary forest up to c. 305 m (KDB; Supiori). Less common in sparsely wooded farmland.

Breeding 12 January 1997: carrying twigs to a platform nest in a 15 m-tall tree (SvB).