Cinnamon Ibon

Cinnamon Ibon
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passeridae
Genus: Hypocryptadius
Hartert, 1903
Species: H. cinnamomeus
Binomial name
Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus
Hartert, 1903

The Cinnamon Ibon (Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus) is a species of bird endemic to the mountains of Mindanao in the Philippines.[1] Monotypic within the genus Hypocryptadius, it is classified as a sparrow after being tenatively placed in the white-eye family Zosteropidae.[2] Its natural habitat is tropical moist montane forests and mossy forests above 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).[1] It has a skull and bill similar to that of the sparrows, and following a study of its mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, Jon Fjeldså and colleagues placed the species as the most basal member of that family.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c BirdLife International (2004). "Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2006. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/52455. Retrieved 26 July 2007. 
  2. ^ a b Fjeldså, J. O. N.; Irestedt, M.; Ericson, P. R. G. P.; Zuccon, D. (2010). "The Cinnamon Ibon Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus is a forest canopy sparrow". Ibis 152 (4): 747. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01053.x.  edit

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