Sahul Cicadabird

When to see the Sahul Cicadabird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Sahul Cicadabird

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Solomon Islands.

About the Sahul Cicadabird

The Sahul cicadabird, previously known as the common cicadabird or slender-billed cicadabird, is a species of passerine bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Australia, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. Its natural habitats are temperate forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. The species is placed in the reinstated genus Edolisoma by most authors. The common cicadabird was described as a "great speciator" by Mayr & Diamond (2001); and Pedersen et al. (2018) described how this species rapidly colonized and diversified across the Indo-Pacific island region and Australia in the Pleistocene.

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Easily confused with

Grey-headed CuckooshrikeEdolisoma schisticepsThe grey-headed cuckooshrike, also known as the grey-headed cicadabird or black-tipped cicadabird, is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. Black-bellied CuckooshrikeEdolisoma montanumThe black-bellied cuckooshrike or black-bellied cicadabird is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. Black CicadabirdEdolisoma melasThe black cicadabird, also known as the New Guinea cuckooshrike or New Guinea cicadabird, is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae.