Species profile
Obscure Berrypecker
Melanocharis arfakiana
Quick answer
patchily distributed in central and eastern New Guinea
- Scientific name
- Melanocharis arfakiana
- Family
- Melanocharitidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Melanocharis
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Obscure Berrypecker in your journal
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Related species in Melanocharitidae
- Black Berrypecker (Melanocharis nigra)
- Fan-tailed Berrypecker (Melanocharis versteri)
- Melanocharis chloroptera (Melanocharis chloroptera)
- Mid-mountain Berrypecker (Melanocharis longicauda)
- Pygmy Longbill (Oedistoma pygmaeum)
- Satin Berrypecker (Melanocharis citreola)
- Slaty-headed Longbill (Toxorhamphus poliopterus)
- Spectacled Longbill (Oedistoma iliolophus)