Drepanornis

Drepanornis is a genus of bird-of-paradise found in forests of New Guinea.^[2] They have long decurved sickle-like bills and an overall brown plumage.^[3]

Drepanornis
Black-billed sicklebill (Drepanornis albertisi)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Paradisaeidae
Genus:	Drepanornis P.L. Sclater, 1873
Type species
Drepanephorus albertisi[1] P.L. Sclater, 1873

The genus is sometimes considered a subgenus of Epimachus, but the two members of Drepanornis have a far shorter tail and their sexual dimorphism is less extreme.^[4]

Species

• Black-billed sicklebill, Drepanornis albertisi.
• Pale-billed sicklebill, Drepanornis bruijnii.

References

1. "Paradisaeidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
2. Brett Hartl (2016-10-08), West Papua Birds of Paradise, archived from the original on 2021-12-14, retrieved 2019-06-03
3. "Black-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis albertisi) :: xeno-canto". www.xeno-canto.org. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
4. Frith, Clifford; Frith, Dawn (2020). Del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Sargatal, Jordi; Christie, David; De Juana, Eduardo (eds.). "Black-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis albertisi)". Birds of the World. doi:10.2173/bow.blbsic1.01. S2CID 216394848. Retrieved 2019-06-03.