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Snow Mountain Robin
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Snow Mountain Robin
Petroica archboldi
The Snow Mountains robin (Petroica archboldi), also known as the Snow Mountain robin, is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. It is endemic to West Papua, Indonesia.
From the article Snow Mountains robin on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Snow Mountain robin has slaty-grey plumage, darker wings, a white spot on its forehead, and, most prominently, a large crimson spot on the breast, which makes it easily recognizable.
Wikipedia: “Characteristics”
Range & habitat
The Snow Mountain robin is only found in Puncak Trikora and the Freeport McMoran Grasberg gold mine, both near Puncak Jaya. Public access into these areas are restricted. This bird occurs between 3,850 and 4,150 metres (12,630 and 13,620 ft) in rocky slopes with no trees, since this bird doesn't occur on or near the tree line, where most other robin species live.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
Generally social birds, Snow Mountain robins live in small groups of a few individuals. They feed on insects among the rocks on grassy slopes.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 14174.