Biology:Black-headed tailorbird

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Short description: Species of bird

Black-headed tailorbird
Orthotomus nigriceps 2009 stamp of the Philippines.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Orthotomus
Species:
O. nigriceps
Binomial name
Orthotomus nigriceps
Tweeddale, 1878

The black-headed tailorbird (Orthotomus nigriceps) is a songbird species in the family Cisticolidae. It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage. The species is sexually monomorphic in the adult plumage.

It is native to the southeastern Philippines islands of (eastern) Mindanao, Dinagat and Siargao. Specimens from Dinagat and Siargao have brighter, yellower ventral plumage and have been described as O. nigriceps luminosus.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2013309 entry