Celestial Monarch

分类位置

同属物种

黑枕王鹟

Black-naped Monarch

Pale-blue Monarch

Pale-blue Monarch

Short-crested Monarch

Short-crested Monarch

形态与习性

The celestial monarch (Hypothymis coelestis) is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae, and one of the most attractive of all the monarch flycatchers. It is identified as a turquoise blue bird with a long and spectacular cerulean blue crest and large greenish-yellow wattle. It is endemic to the Philippines with its extant range being in Luzon, Samar, Mindanao Tawi-Tawi and Basilan and it being possibly extinct on Negros and Sibuyan Island.Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forest