Birds of New GuineaNew Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterised by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than 350 are found nowhere else on Earth. This comprehensive annotated checklist of distribution, taxonomy, and systematics of the birds of New Guinea is the first