Island Monarch

When to see the Island Monarch

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Island Monarch

The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Australia.

About the Island Monarch

The island monarch is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. It is found from Sulawesi to the Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Black-winged MonarchMonarcha fraterThe black-winged monarch is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. Chestnut-bellied MonarchMonarcha castaneiventrisThe chestnut-bellied monarch or chestnut-bellied monarch-flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. White-capped MonarchMonarcha richardsiiThe white-capped monarch is a medium sized bird with a glossy black back, and darker black around the throat and face and a tawny belly.