Species profile
Greater Melampitta
Melampitta gigantea
Quick answer
Patchily distributed lower montane slopes of New Guinea
- Scientific name
- Melampitta gigantea
- Family
- Corcoracidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Melampitta
Recording Greater Melampitta in your journal
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