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Alternative name: Black-crowned Tree-Babbler

Stachyris nigrocapitata

[edit] Identification

13 - 14cm. A small dullish babbler.

• Grey-brown above
• Whitish below
• Slightly crested black crown
• Rusty malar
• Yellowish throat

Sexes similar.

Juveniles have a brownish crown.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to the Philippines.
Fairly common in parts of its range, but patchily distributed.

Resident species.

[edit] Taxonomy

Also placed in genus Sterrhoptilus.

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 3 subspecies:

• S. n. nigrocapitata on Samar and Leyte
• S. n. affinis on Luzon
• S. n. boholensis on Bohol

[edit] Habitat

Undergrowth in moist lowland forests. Found at 100m - 1140m.

[edit] Behaviour

Usually seen singly, in pairs or small groups, often together with other species.

[edit] Diet

No information about diet. Feeds probably on invertebrates and some vegetable matter.
Forages in lower branches of trees where it hunts slowly and methodical. Hunts by foliage-gleaning and by disturbing insects around dead leaves trapped in canopy of small trees.

[edit] Breeding

Breeding season probably April to July. The nest is a deep cup made of moss and fine black fibres. It's suspended between small twigs of a bush or sapling, around 1.2m above the ground. Lays 3 eggs.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2007. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553422

• List of references

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