It is the only bird where the male and female jointly forage. The male pecks a hole in the tree with his beak, and the female takes out the larvae with her long beak and eats them.
- Scientific name: Heteralocha acutirostris
- Extinction: 1907
- Classification system: Aves > Passeriformes > Callaeidae
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