Family Old World Flycatchers and Chats (Muscicapidae)
Least Concern
Eyebrowed Jungle-flycatcher (Vauriella gularis)
Taxonomy
French: Gobemouche bridé German: Weißbrauen-Dschungelschnäpper Spanish: Papamoscas embridado
Other common names:
Bornean Robin
Taxonomy:
Rhinomyias gularis
Sharpe
, 1888,Kinabalu, northern Borneo
.Distribution:
Mountains of Borneo (including Muratus Mts, in extreme SE#R).
Descriptive notes
15 cm. Medium-sized, plump jungle-flycatcher with reddish-brown upperparts and distinctive supercilium. Forehead to crown, nape and upperparts, including edges of upperwing-... read more
Voice
Largely silent, but has loud churring call in breeding season; sharp “prrrt” alarm.
Habitat
Montane forest, mostly between 1500 m and 2150 m; 900–3300 m on Mt Kinabalu.
Food and feeding
Diet not well known, but includes small insects and seeds. Solitary or, often, in small groups; occasionally with mixed-species flocks.... read more
Breeding
Season Jan–Apr, and fledged young in May. Nest cup-shaped or a large untidy ball of small sticks, moss, dry fern fronds, leaves and... read more
Movements
Resident.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. Restricted-range species: present in Bornean Mountains EBA. Fairly common or locally common. Recently recorded farther S in Borneo, in Kalimantan,... read more
V. albigularis, V. insignis, V. goodfellowi and present species all previously regarded as conspecific, but now considered to differ sufficiently to warrant treatment as separate species. The validity of proposed race kamlae (described from Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak)#R has proved impossible to assess, but it is reportedly larger#R. Monotypic.