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Shade Warbler Horornis parens Scientific name definitions

Peter Clement
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2006

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Originally Appeared in

HBW Alive

Field Identification

11–12 cm; male 18–19 g, female 14 g. A small to medium-sized and rather nondescript warbler with short wings and tail, long legs, slender bill. Has relatively short and indistinct buffish supercilium to over ear-coverts, darker brown lores and eyestripe, cinnamon-brown cheek and ear-coverts; dark russet-brown above, slightly warmer brown on forehead and crown; edges of flight-feathers paler warm brown; chin and throat dull buffish-brown, becoming dull cinnamon-brown below, deeper and richer on undertail-coverts; iris dark; upper mandible dark brown, lower mandible pale pinkish or whitish-flesh; legs dull yellowish-brown. Sexes generally alike, but female may lack warmer brown on forecrown and have throat browner. Juvenile has olive-brown upperparts, dark crown, bright olive-yellow chin and throat, greyish-olive breast, belly and flanks, brown-washed undertail-coverts; very similar to adult H. annae.

Systematics History

In the past sometimes placed in a separate genus, Vitia. Monotypic.

Subspecies

Monotypic.

Distribution

Makira (San Cristobal), in S Solomon Is.

Habitat

Undergrowth of montane forest, above 600 m.

Movement

Resident.

Diet and Foraging

Diet principally small invertebrates. Forages actively on ground and in thick undergrowth.

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Song, from 2–3 m above ground in dense cover, a deep whistle or two whistles in quick succession, the first rising in pitch and the second falling, “wuwuwi, wuwuwi” or “weedleedle we wiwi wew”. Call a soft or mellow long whistle.

Breeding

Nestlings in early Dec. No other information.

Conservation Status

Conservation status on Birdlife LC Least Concern
Not globally threatened. Restricted-range species: present in Solomon Group EBA. Fairly common within its single-island range. Occurs in Hauta Conservation Area.
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Recommended Citation

Clement, P. (2020). Shade Warbler (Horornis parens), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.shawar1.01
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