Passeri suborder - round 1, section 1
Which is the best bird?
Superb lyrebird
Olive warbler
Chowchilla
North Island kokako
Philippine leafbird
Fan-tailed berrypecker
Philippine fairy-bluebird
Drakensberg rockjumper
seen from Netherlands
seen from Poland

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Yemen

seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from United States

seen from Netherlands
seen from Germany
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States

seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Azerbaijan
Passeri suborder - round 1, section 1
Which is the best bird?
Superb lyrebird
Olive warbler
Chowchilla
North Island kokako
Philippine leafbird
Fan-tailed berrypecker
Philippine fairy-bluebird
Drakensberg rockjumper
The Crested Berrypecker (Paramythia montium) is part of a very small bird family known as painted berrypeckers (Paramythiidae), which is restricted to the mountain forests of New Guinea – the other member being the Tit Berrypecker (Oreocharis arfaki).
This colourful, medium-sized bird is known to feed on fruit and some insects and is usually found at altitudes exceeding 2,200 metres above sea level.
The eponymous crest is clearly visible in this beautiful photograph, which was captured by the ever-talented Rich Lindie, who was recently guiding in Papua New Guinea.
Orioloidea superfamily
Which is the best bird?
Long-tailed minivet
Wattled ploughbill
Crested bellbird
Eastern shriketit
Hooded pitohui
Eastern crested berrypecker
Blue-headed vireo
Eastern whipbird
Australian golden whistler
Green shrike-vireo
Black pitohui
Berrypecker & longbill (Melanocharitidae) family
Which is the best bird?
Slaty-headed longbill
Black berrypecker
Fan-tailed berrypecker
This family contains just three eligible species in two genera (Melanocharis and Toxorhamphus).
Crested Berrypecker | Source
50 Years Later, Climate Has Pushed New Guinea’s Birds Up and Off Mountains
by Hugh Powell
Crested Berrypeckers do exist, just this side of make-believe, in the mossy, wooded mountaintops of New Guinea. The bird is spectacular: a vaguely jay-looking bird with a black crest, moody blue underparts, and brilliant yellow undertail coverts. The Macaulay Library has a video of one prying berries from a fruiting shrub. It patiently grips a berry in its bill, stopping and starting to get it in the right place, and tugs with its full body to pull it loose. Not once does the berry actually get pecked.
The noted scientist and author Jared Diamond saw something similar in 1965, when he encountered Crested Berrypeckers on a remote peak called Mt. Karimui. Sounding a bit puzzled, he wrote, “Paramythia montium… flies into a tree with a loud wing beat, hops around vigorously, plucks a few berries, and flies off again, leaving the tree full of uneaten berries.” Diamond also noted that he never saw the birds farther than 40 feet below the summit...
(read more: Cornell Lab of Ornithology)