The long-billed myzomela (''Myzomela longirostris'') 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 The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family, Meliphagidae, of small to medium-sized birds. The family includes the Australian chats, myzomelas, friarbirds, wattlebirds, miners and melidectes. They are most common in Australia and New Guinea ...

. It is found on

Goodenough Island Goodenough Island in the Solomon Sea, also known as Nidula Island, is the westernmost of the three large islands of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It lies to the east of mainland New Guinea and southwest ...

(d'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea). It was formerly considered a subspecies of the

red-collared myzomela The red-collared myzomela (''Myzomela rosenbergii'') is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in New Guinea. The long-billed myzomela (''M. longirostris'') of Goodenough Island was formerly considered conspecific, but was spl ...

(''Myzomela rosenbergii''), but was split as a distinct species by the

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in 2021. Its natural

habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...

is subtropical or tropical moist

montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f ...

References

long-billed myzomela Birds of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands long-billed myzomela long-billed myzomela long-billed myzomela {{Meliphagidae-stub