The Arfak honeyeater (''Melipotes gymnops'') or bare-eyed honeyeater, is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family Meliphagidae. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to West Papua,

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, where it lives in subtropical and tropical moist montane forest, at elevations ranging from .

References

Melipotes Birds of the Doberai Peninsula Birds described in 1873 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Philip Sclater Vogelkop montane rain forests Endemic birds of Indonesia {{Meliphagidae-stub