Species profile
Black-capped Catbird
Ailuroedus melanocephalus
Quick answer
Mountains of se New Guinea
- Scientific name
- Ailuroedus melanocephalus
- Family
- Ptilonorhynchidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Ailuroedus
Recording Black-capped Catbird in your journal
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Related species in Ptilonorhynchidae
- Ailuroedus melanotus (Ailuroedus melanotus)
- Alphachlamydera cerviniventris (Alphachlamydera cerviniventris)
- Archbold's Bowerbird (Archboldia papuensis)
- Arfak Catbird (Ailuroedus arfakianus)
- Black-eared Catbird (Ailuroedus melanotis)
- Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (Chlamydera cerviniventris)
- Fire-maned Bowerbird (Sericulus bakeri)
- Flame Bowerbird (Sericulus ardens)