Spot-throated Flameback Dinopium everetti Scientific name definitions

28–30 cm; 85–98g. Male has red forehead and upper lores to crown and crest  , crown narrowly edged black, thin white supercilium  from above eye to nape side, broad black band from eye to hindneck, broad white cheekstripe from lores continuing down side of neck to side of breast; thin black submoustachial line  variably stained reddish anteriorly, broader at rear, then continuing down to upper breast; central throat  and chin lightly peppered black; mantle and scapulars to upper back olive-yellow with some rufous tones (variable), lower back to rump crimson; uppertail-coverts blackish-brown, sometimes with olive tinge, uppertail black; flight-feathers mostly blackish-brown with white spots on inner webs, secondaries and tertials olive-yellow on outer webs; breast light buffish-brown and more or less unstreaked, rest of underparts  white with indistinct to fairly well-pronounced dark barring (dark brown feather centres); bill pointed, relatively short, curved on culmen, narrow across nostrils, blackish to dark grey, generally paler at base; iris dark red-brown or brown, orbital skin black; legs greyish-olive, three toes. Female has crown mostly black with some white spots, crest feathers tipped red; lacks reddish colour in submoustachial area. Juvenile is like adult, but generally browner in appearance and with paler eyes.

W Philippines: Balabac, Palawan and Calamian Group.

Open forest and woodlands; also coconut plantations (3 Kennedy, R. S., P. C. Gonzales, E. C. Dickinson, H. C. Miranda, and T. H. Fisher (2000). A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Close ), indicating some tolerance of habitat modified by humans. Generally in lowlands.

Rattle call a fast  “ka-di-di-di-di-di-di” or protracted harsh “churrrrrr”; variable series of “kowp-owp-owp-owp” in flight, and single or double “kow” when perched. Calls evidently very like those of D. javanense. Little information on drumming; thought to be similar to that of congeners.

Not globally threatened. Currently considered Near Threatened. Uncommon. Although global population size not yet quantified, it is believed to be fewer than 10,000 mature individuals and is therefore placed in band 2500–9999 mature individuals. Continuing fragmentation and degradation of forest, as well as total habitat loss, suggests that this species’ numbers are almost certainly decreasing, although it seems capable to some extent of tolerating some habitat alteration. Loss of lowland forest has been extensive, and ongoing; on Palawan, logging and mining concessions have been granted for most of the remaining forest tracts. Illegal logging thought to persist across much of the species’range. Occurs in St Paul’s Subterranean River National Park, in Palawan.