This is definitely one of the weirdest creatures I ever saw in avian society. These birds are as big as a large bulky pigeon, have a tiny and very narrow head, they are gifted with ridiculously large wattles and they make a flight-sound like a clumsy partridge. Their flight seems a mixture between a quick partridge-like flight (their first wing beats) and the undulating aspect of a hoopoe flight (when their wing beat stops, they quickly loose some altitude).
MacGregor's Honeyeater, or MacGregor's Giant Honey-eater was first listed as a Bird of Paradise species. After years of taxonomic discussion it is now widely accepted that this bird is definitely not a Bird of Paradise species, but a kind of a giant honeyeater.
Due to the increasing hunting pressure (for food consumption), this once relatively common species, has now become quite rare around Lake Habema. It used to be seen frequently everywhere in the small subalpine forest edges adjacent to Lake Habema itself, but nowadays their distribution seems to be more restricted the higher forest edges and natural open clearings inside the forest and along the forested river streams.