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Photo by James Eaton
PICOP, Mindanao, The Philippines, February 2005

Pernis celebensis

Includes: Philippine Honey Buzzard

[edit] Identification

Adult

• Black crown and nape
• Short crest on nape
• Sepia upper parts and upper wings
• Buff streaks on upper back
• Brown to black tail with a broad pale brown band
• Sides of the head are streaked with sepia and pale brown
• White throat and chin narrowly streaked with black, broad black median line and black edges
• Buff upper breast streaked with dark brown
• Barred white and dark brown lower breast, belly and under-wing coverts
• Yellow to brown eyes
• Yellow cere and feet
• Bill black above, and horn coloured at base of lower mandible
  

Immatures are much paler brown above than the adult; pale sepia with paler edges.

[edit] Distribution

Philippines and Sulawesi. Resident.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

Two subspecies are recognised:

• P. c. celebensis:

• Sulawesi, Muna, Butung and Peleng islands

• P. c. steerei:

• Philippine Islands (except Palawan), sometimes split as full species

[edit] Habitat

Tropical forest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes bees and their honey-combs.

[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. hugohall

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages