Visayan Tailorbird (Orthotomus castaneiceps) | Photos, Calls and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebrates

ForestCup nestTiny · 13 g

Visayan Tailorbird (Orthotomus castaneiceps), photo 1 — Photo: Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0

Visayan Tailorbird (Orthotomus castaneiceps), photo 2 — Photo: Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0

Visayan Tailorbird (Orthotomus castaneiceps), photo 3 — Photo: Forest Botial-Jarvis · CC BY 4.0

Visayan Tailorbird (Orthotomus castaneiceps), photo 4 — Photo: Albert Abadicio · CC BY 4.0

Visayan Tailorbird (Orthotomus castaneiceps), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Ben Costamagna, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Visayan Tailorbird (Orthotomus castaneiceps), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Visayan Tailorbird sounds like

Sonogram of the Visayan Tailorbird: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Derek Paulo · Call · CPAC, Murcia, Negros Occidental, Western Visayas, Philippines · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

It was formerly conspecific with trilling tailorbird. It is presumed to eat insects and it is typically found in dense tangled undergrowth.

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When to see the Visayan Tailorbird

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Visayan Tailorbird

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Philippines

About the Visayan Tailorbird

The Visayan tailorbird, also known as the Philippine tailorbird or the chestnut-crowned tailorbird is a species of bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae. It is native to the Philippines in Western Visayas. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, tropical mangrove forests and secondary growth.

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Easily confused with

Cambodian TailorbirdOrthotomus chaktomukThe Cambodian tailorbird has an orange-red crown, and a black throat.

Rufous-fronted TailorbirdOrthotomus frontalisThe rufous-fronted tailorbird is a species of bird formerly placed in the Old World warbler assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae.

Green-backed TailorbirdOrthotomus chloronotusIt was formerly conspecific with Philippine tailorbird but differentatied by its green back, darker underparts and stronger trilling call.

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