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Bismarck Honeyeater

Vosea whitemanensis

FAMILY

Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)

LAST DOCUMENTED

1979

(44 years)

REGION

Oceania

IUCN STATUS

Near Threatened

Last Documented

After a gap of 44 years, the Bismarck Honeyeater was recently photographed (October 2023) on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. The last documentation was in December 1979, only ~22 km away.

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