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Javan black-capped babbler

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Javan black-capped babbler
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pellorneidae
Genus: Pellorneum
Species:
P. capistratum
Binomial name
Pellorneum capistratum
(Temminck, 1823)

The Javan black-capped babbler (Pellorneum capistratum) is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae. It is endemic to the island of Java in Indonesia. The Malayan black-capped babbler (P. nigrocapitatum) and the Bornean black-capped babbler (P. capistratoides) were both formerly considered conspecific, but were split from it in 2021.[2] Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

Diet

It forages in the understory of forests.[3]

Behavior

It is sedentary.[3]

P. capistratum specimen, Collection Naturalis Biodiversity Center

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Pellorneum capistratum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T103869220A113205820. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103869220A113205820.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b Garg, Kritika M; Chattopadhyay, Balaji; Cros, Emilie; Tomassi, Suzanne; Benedick, Suzan; Edwards, David P; Rheindt, Frank E (6 December 2021). "Island Biogeography Revisited: Museomics Reveals Affinities of Shelf Island Birds Determined by Bathymetry and Paleo-Rivers, Not by Distance to Mainland". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39 (1): msab340. doi:10.1093/molbev/msab340. ISSN 0737-4038. PMC 8789277. PMID 34893875.
  • Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.