Short-crested Monarch Hypothymis helenae Scientific name definitions

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Birds in breeding condition (enlarged gonads) in Apr and May. An empty nest found in Apr was in a fork of a small tree c. 1 m above the ground, constructed of fine roots woven together with cobwebs (1 Allen, D., C. P. Española, G. Broad, C. Oliveros, and J. C. T. Gonzalez (2006). New bird records for the Babuyan Islands, Philippines, including two first records for the Philippines. Forktail 22:57–70. Close ). Another nest found in May had two eggs and was inside the broken trunk of a tree fern, 70 cm from the ground; nest material included dry leaves and small branches of tree fern, all roughly shaped into a cup; eggs bluish green with brown and dark brown blotches, heavily blotched in the distal part, and c. 21 mm ×16 mm (2 Sánchez-González, L. A., C. Oliveros, N. Puna, and R. G. Moyle (2010). Nests, nest placement, and eggs of three Philippine endemic birds. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 122(3):587–591. Close ). No further information.

Not globally threatened. Currently considered Near Threatened. Restricted-range species: present in Luzon EBA and Mindanao and the Eastern Visayas EBA. Rare everywhere in range; very few records from Luzon and Mindanao. Was previously common on Camiguin Norte, but records date back to 1907; was common also on Dinagat in 1972, but apparently not in 1994. Presumably has suffered from habitat loss, but extent to which it has been affected is not known.