The shrikebills are insectivorous, and use their large heavy bills to explore tangles of dead leaves and dead wood; an unusual foraging strategy for their family.[1] Their diet may also include small fruits and lizards.
^Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Passeriformes, or perching birds. Coliomorphœ, containing the families Corridœ, Paradiseidœ, Oriolidœ, Dicruridœ, and Prionopidœ, by R.B. Sharpe. order of the Trustees. 1877-01-01.
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shrikebill, shrikebills, monarch, flycatcher, genus, clytorhynchus, five, species, have, long, laterally, compressed, bills, similar, true, shrikes, that, give, them, their, names, genus, endemic, islands, melanesia, western, polynesia, sblack, throated, shrik. The shrikebills are the monarch flycatcher genus Clytorhynchus The five species have long laterally compressed bills similar to true shrikes that give them their names The genus is endemic to the islands of Melanesia and western Polynesia 1 ShrikebillsBlack throated shrikebillScientific classificationKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass AvesOrder PasseriformesFamily MonarchidaeGenus ClytorhynchusElliot 1870Diversity5 speciesSynonymsPinarolestes Sharpe 1877The shrikebills are insectivorous and use their large heavy bills to explore tangles of dead leaves and dead wood an unusual foraging strategy for their family 1 Their diet may also include small fruits and lizards Contents 1 Taxonomy and systematics 1 1 Extant species 1 2 Former species 2 ReferencesTaxonomy and systematics EditExtant species Edit The genus Clytorhynchus contains the following species 2 Southern shrikebill Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides Fiji shrikebill Clytorhynchus vitiensis Black throated shrikebill Clytorhynchus nigrogularis Santa Cruz shrikebill Clytorhynchus sanctaecrucis Rennell shrikebill Clytorhynchus hamlini Former species Edit Formerly some authorities also considered the following species or subspecies as species within the genus Clytorhynchus Sangihe whistler as Pinarolestes sanghirensis 3 Little shrikethrush as Pinarolestes megarhynchos or Pinarolestes megarhynchus 4 References Edit a b Duston Guy 2006 The Pacific shrikebills Clytorhynchus and the case for species status for the form sanctaecrucis PDF Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club 126 4 299 308 Archived from the original PDF on 2009 01 05 IOC World Bird List 6 4 IOC World Bird List Datasets doi 10 14344 ioc ml 6 4 Coracornis sanghirensis Avibase avibase bsc eoc org Retrieved 2017 01 29 Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum Passeriformes or perching birds Coliomorphœ containing the families Corridœ Paradiseidœ Oriolidœ Dicruridœ and Prionopidœ by R B Sharpe order of the Trustees 1877 01 01 This Monarchidae related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shrikebill amp oldid 1131583621, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
