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| Melodious Babbler Malacopteron palawanense |
| Common Names: Red-headed Tree
Babbler Discoverer: Buttikofer, 1865 Category: ENDANGERED Status: ENDEMIC Habitat/Distribution: Balabac and Palawan Habitat / Behavior: L 7 3/4";Noisy but shy and difficult to see; found singly, in small groups in tangles and vines in the middlestory or in the tops of low trees in lowland forest. It responds to imitations of it's song by moving closer but always staying under cover.
The song is a loud, rhythmic 5-note whistle dee too dee too daar with
alternating low, high, low, high level notes. Easily imitated sounds very
much like " I can see you there". (THF & RSK: P. Morris
recording) Photograph Information: Courtesy of the Babilonia Wilner Foundation Illustrations by George Sandstrom and John R. Pierce, taken from the book "Philippine Birds" by John duPont. "A Photographic Field Guide to Birds of the Philippines by Tim Fisher and Nigel Hicks" [left] |
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