Alternative name: Tabiky Newtonia
- Newtonia archboldi
Identification
12cm. A small, short-winged, warbler-like Vanga:
- Variable dark rufous-brown band on forehead and around eye
- Greyish-brown top of head and upperparts
- Dark grey lores to malar area, pale buff mottled
- Greyish-brown cheek and ear-coverts, sometimes with rufous tinge
- Grey-brown tail and upperwing
- Buffy white centre of chin and throat
- Cinnamon-buff breast and flanks becoming buffy white on belly and undertail-coverts
- Pale whitish-yellow eye
- Black bill
Sexes similar. Juveniles have less rufous on head and conspicuously cinnamon-buff edged secondaries.
Distribution
Endemic to southwestern and southern Madagascar. Found south of Morondava in a narrow band (ca. 100km) along the coast to west of Fort Dauphin.
Locally fairly common.
Taxonomy
Monotypic.[1]
Habitat
Dry spiny forests and shrubland. Occurs from sea-level up to 100m.
Behaviour
Feeds on small arthropods (like spiders, beetles, bugs and termites).
Searches actively in branches of shrubs and low trees.
Few data about breeding. Juveniles have been recorded from November to December. The nest is a deep cup hidden in dense vegetation.
A sedentary species.
References
- Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2006. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553064
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Archbold's Newtonia. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 March 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Archbold%27s_Newtonia
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.