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Pachycephala albiventris

[edit] Identification

16cm.

• Dull olive-green crown and mantle
• Bright olive-yellow on rump and uppertail-coverts
• Olive-grey face and ear-coverts
• Olive-yellow tail
• Whitish grey chin and throat with faint grey streaks
• Pale brownish-grey breast
• White belly
• Yellowish undertail-coverts
• Dark brown eye
• Black bill

Sexes alike, juveniles have dark brown upperparts.

[edit] Similar species

Similar to Mangrove Whistler but note grey breast and more yellowish in plumage. No range overlap.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to south-east Asia: found in the northern Philippines (Luzon and Mindoro).
Common or even abundant at some sites.

[edit] Taxonomy

Three subspecies recognized^[2]:

• P. a. albiventris on north Luzon
• P. a. crissalis in central and south Luzon
• P. a. mindorensis on Mindoro

Other authorities treat this species as monotypic.^[1]
Forms a superspecies with Mangrove Whistler, White-vented Whistler and Island Whistler and is sometimes considered conspecific with the first two.

[edit] Habitat

Forests, found up to 2000m.

[edit] Behaviour

Feeds on insects.
Forages from canopy to understorey. Joins sometimes bird-waves.
Breeding season variable. No information about nest or clutch size.
Probably a sedentary species.

[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.
2. 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
3. Avibase

• List of references

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