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Blue Jewel-babbler
Ptilorrhoa caerulescens (Temminck, 1836)
Cinclosomatidae — Jewel-babblers, Quail-thrushes
Blue Jewel-babbler, Ptilorrhoa caerulescens, is a bird of New Guinea and the Raja Ampat Islands in Australasia, belonging to the Cinclosomatidae family. It is found in tropical moist lowland rainforest, especially in primary forest rather than secondary growth. In the Markham Valley of New Guinea, Wampar speakers call it birisis. Its call is made up of a run of quick notes at the same pitch, beginning loudly and increasing in volume as it continues.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cinclosomatidae — Jewel-babblers, Quail-thrushes
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Raja Ampat Is. (nw of New Guinea) and New Guinea
