Family Leaf-warblers (Phylloscopidae)

Least Concern

Philippine Leaf-warbler (Phylloscopus olivaceus)

Taxonomy

French: Pouillot des Philippines German: Philippinenlaubsänger Spanish: Mosquitero de Mindanao

Taxonomy:

Abrornis olivacea

Moseley

, 1891,

Samar, Philippines

Sometimes considered conspecific with P. cebuensis, but sympatric with that species (and also with P. trivirgatus) on Negros. Monotypic.

Distribution:

C & S Philippines (Samar, Biliran, Leyte, Negros, Bohol, Mindanao) and Sulu Archipelago.

Descriptive notes

11–12·5 cm; 10·1 g. A medium-sized leaf-warbler with olive-green upperparts. Has pale greenish-yellow supercilium, dark grey lores and eyestripe; crown... read more

Voice

Call a short sharp “prrrr-chi”, frequently repeated.

Habitat

Inhabits forest and forest edges in lowland and at midde elevations; to c. 1500 m on Mindanao.

Food and feeding

Food small arthropods. Forages alone or in mixed-species flocks; takes insects from outer foliage of trees and bushes.

Breeding

Season Apr–Aug. No other information.

Movements

Sedentary.

Status and conservation

Not globally threatened. Common or locally common. Occurs in Rajah Sikatuna National Park, on Bohol.

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Scientific classification

Class: Aves

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Phylloscopidae

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Formerly included in a broad Sylviidae. Recent review#R indicates that previous internal arrangement, with all taxa of present family split between Seicercus and Phylloscopus, was paraphyletic. As a result some authors have split Phylloscopus into several smaller genera, with some movement of taxa from Phylloscopus to Seicercus, but accuracy of this debatable on present knowledge. One of these versions#R involves groups containing species as listed below: Rhadina (species 1–3); Abrornis (species 4–13); Phylloscopus (species 14–28); and Seicercus (species 29–78). Another version#R divides family into nine genera. More cautious alternative involves merging Seicercus into Phylloscopus; adopted herein, pending results of a comprehensive study currently in progress#R.