Eurylaime des Visayas

Sarcophanops samarensis

Un oiseau de taille moyenne des forêts de plaine des îles de Bohol, Leyte et Samar. Il a un bec bleu pâle et un caroncule oculaire bleu plus profond, une face noire, une calotte striée, un dos brun rougeâtre, une aile sombre avec une barre alaire rosâtre à blanche, un mince collier blanc avec quelques écailles au-dessus, et un croupion et une queue rougeâtres. Le dessous du corps est blanc chez la femelle et rosâtre chez le mâle. Il fait de courtes sorties pour les insectes. On peut le trouver en couples, en petits groupes, ou parfois en troupes mixtes. Inconfondable. Sa voix inclut un sifflement plaintif et un « tyik ! » aigu.

Taxonomie

Small, brightly coloured passerine of lowland forest on Bohol, Leyte, and Samar islands. Has a pale blue bill and deeper blue eye wattle, a black face, a streaked crown, a reddish-brown back, a dark wing with a pinkish to white wingbar, a thin white collar with some scaling above, reddish rump and tail and overall stout appearance. Underparts are white in the female and pinkish in the male. Makes short sallies for insects. Can be found in pairs, small groups, or sometimes mixed-species flocks. Unmistakable. Voice includes a plaintive whistle and a sharp tyik!.<p>They are sexually dimorphic in which the males have reddish-pink bellies with the females having clean white bellies. The collar of the males is reddish-pink while females have a black-and-white collar.<p>It is differentiated by its thinner reddish collar and white wing patch versus the Wattled broadbill with its thicker white collar and yellow wing patch. It is also smaller with sizes of 14-15 versus the 16–18 cm of the Wattled broadbill

Nom scientifique
Sarcophanops samarensis
Autorité
Steere, 1890
Ordre
Passériformes
Famille
Eurylaimidae
Genre
Sarcophanops

Répartition et habitat

Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forest, tropical mangrove forest, and tropical moist shrubland with most records under 1,000 meters above sea level. It is often found foraging in the understorey and lower parts of the canopy.<p>IUCN has assessed this bird as vulnerable with the population being estimated at 2,500 to 9,999. Extensive lowland deforestation on all islands in its range is the main threat. Most remaining lowland forest that is not afforded protection leaving it vulnerable to both legal and Illegal logging, conversion into farmlands through Slash-and-burn and mining. There is only 4% forest remaining in Bohol and around 400 km2 of primary forest combined in Samar and Leyte with no respite in deforestation.<p>This occurs in a few protected areas such as Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape and Samar Island Natural Park however protection is lax.<p>Conservation actions proposed include to survey remaining habitat to better understand ecology and population size. Propose sites supporting key populations for protection and ensure that proposed protected areas receive actual protection from threats.

Migration
Resident species

Conservation

Tendance de la population
declining

Photos

Distribution

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