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| Celestial Monarch Hypothymis coelestis |
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Discoverer: Tweeddale 1887 Category: ENDANGERED Habitat/Distribution: Range: 2 races: coelestis - Basilan, Dinagat, Luzon, Mindanao, and Samar. rabori - Negros and Sibuyan; ssp. Tawi-Tawi (Brooks and Dutson,1997) Habitat / Behavior: L 6"; Forages singly or in mixed flocks usually middle or upper canopy forest or forest edge or secondary growth below 1,000m. Usually detected by diagnostic far-carrying 3-note whistle. It nearly always carries it's crest down, like a cap down it's back. If excited it will raise it.
Call is a loud, ringing 3-note whistle puweee puweee puweee in the same cadence
as counting 1, 2 and 3 rapidly, each set lasts about 1 sec and is repeated
about every 5 sec. Contact call a 2-ntes, rasy pee-citt rpeated often (RSK:
S. Harrap recording) Photograph Information: Courtesy of the Oxford University Press. Drawing done by Victoria D. Edwards taken from "A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines" by Dr. Robert Kennedy et al. (male with crest and the drabber female) |
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