Javan black-capped babbler

Javan black-capped babbler
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
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. 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.