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Pomarea iphis

(Ua Huka Flycatcher)

Overview

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Vulnerable

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Allied Flycatcher, Iphis Monarch, Ua Huka Flycatcher

Common Names in French:

Monarque iphis

Common Names in German:

Fleckenmonarch

Common Names in Japanese:

アオマルケサスヒタキ

Description

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Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: On Ua Huka (c.30% forested), breeding birds were found from 30 m to 650 m (non-breeders to 840 m) in all native low- to mid-elevation moist and wet forest in the south and locally in lowland dry forest (with Pisonia grandis) on the eastern coast6. It forages in dense brush , gleaning insects from branches or hawking them in dark, shaded areas beneath brush-covered canopy2.

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Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Pomarea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. dimidiata (Cook Islands Flycatcher) · P. fluxa (Eiao Monarch) · P. iphis (Ua Huka Flycatcher) · P. iphis bogusii (Test Record Only) · P. mendozae (Marquesas Flycatcher) · P. mendozae mendozae (Marquesas Flycatcher) · P. mira (Ua Pou Monarch) · P. nigra (Society Islands Flycatcher) · P. nukuhivae (Nuku Hiva Monarch) · P. pomarea (Maupiti Monarch) · P. whitneyi (Fatu Hiva Flycatcher)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. BirdLife International 2008. Pomarea iphis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-08-16