Guadalcanal thicketbird

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Guadalcanal thicketbird
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Locustellidae
Genus: Cincloramphus
Species:
C. turipavae
Binomial name
Cincloramphus turipavae
(Cain & Galbraith, ICJ, 1955)

The Guadalcanal thicketbird (Cincloramphus turipavae) is a bird species. It used to be placed in the "Old World warbler" family Sylviidae, but it does not seem to be a close relative of the typical warblers; it belongs in the grass warbler family, Locustellidae. It is found on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the Santo thicketbird (Cincloramphus whitneyi). [1]

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References

  1. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Grassbirds, Donacobius, Malagasy warblers, cisticolas, allies". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 August 2022.