Family: Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers and Chats)

Authority: (Sharpe, 1877)

Red List Category

Criteria: A2c+3c+4c

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Justification of Red List category
This species is highly dependent on intact lowland forests in the southern Philippines, with evidence from remote sensing data that this continues to be lost rapidly for timber extraction and conversion to plantations. Accordingly, this species is suspected to be declining rapidly, and it is therefore listed as Vulnerable.

Population size: unknown

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 254,000 km²

Country endemic: yes

Attributes
Land-mass type - shelf island
Realm - Indomalayan
IUCN System - Terrestrial