On eBird ↗
Blue Jewel-babbler
Live sightings near you, the range map, bar charts of when it is seen, and Macaulay Library photos and recordings.
Blue Jewel-babbler
Ptilorrhoa caerulescens
The blue jewel-babbler (Ptilorrhoa caerulescens) is a species of bird in the family Cinclosomatidae. It is found in New Guinea. In Wampar, spoken among the people who live in Markham Valley of New Guinea, it is referred to as the birisis. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests—typically primary rather than secondary forests.
From the article Blue jewel-babbler on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
Its call consists of a series of rapid notes at a constant pitch; it starts loud and gets progressively louder.
Wikipedia: “Vocal behaviour”
Listen
Looking for field recordings…
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Ptilorrhoa caerulescens in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 979925.