An international team of ornithologists has discovered a new species of ground-warbler on Luzon Island of the Philippine archipelago.
Three ground-warbler species from Philippines: Bicol Ground-Warbler, top, the newly discovered Sierra Madre Ground-Warbler, center, and Cordilleran Ground-Warbler. Image credit: Marco A. Pineda M. / The Condor.
“The ground-warblers are very unique birds. They’re only known from the northern Philippines, and they have no close relatives,” explained Pete Hosner, a graduate student at the University of Kansas and a lead author of the paper describing the new bird in the Cooper Ornithological Society’s journal Condor.
“As the name suggests, they’re ground-walking songbirds and it appears that they can barely fly. They tend to inhabit dense forest understory, where they feed on insects. Their song is extremely high in pitch, and ventriloquial – it’s almost impossible to locate the source of the sound in the forest – they always sound like they are far away, even when they are almost at your feet.”
Sierra Madre Ground-Warbler: New Species of Bird from Philippines
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