Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler
Ptilorrhoa castanonota
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Cinclosomatidae
- Genus
- Ptilorrhoa
- eBird Code
- cbjbab1
Subspecies (7)
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Ptilorrhoa castanonota buergersi
central New Guinea (Sepik Mountains)
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Ptilorrhoa castanonota castanonota
western New Guinea (mountains of Bird's Head Peninsula)
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Ptilorrhoa castanonota gilliardi
Batanta (Raja Ampat Islands, off western New Guinea) and Yapen (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)
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Ptilorrhoa castanonota par
eastern New Guinea (Saruwaged Mountains)
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Ptilorrhoa castanonota pulchra
mountains of southeastern New Guinea
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Ptilorrhoa castanonota saturata
western New Guinea (Nassau Mountains)
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Ptilorrhoa castanonota uropygialis
western New Guinea (northern slopes of Snow Mountains)
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.