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Alternative names: Madagascar Brush Warbler; Madagascan Brush Warbler

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Perinet, Madagascar
Nesillas typica

Identification

17-18 cm. A rather large warbler.

  • Olive-brown plumage
  • Short tail
  • Long, narrow, graduated tail
  • Pale buffish supercilium to just behind eye, poorly marked dusky eyestripe
  • Palye yellowish-buff underparts, whiter on chin and throat, browner on flanks and undertail-coverts and with soft greyish streaks from chin to breast
  • obscura is darker than nominate, less greenish above, has a greyer head and less yellowish underparts
  • moheliensis is warmer brown, less olive and yellower below

Sexes alike, juveniles are uniformly brownish grey.

Distribution

Madagascar and Mohéli (Comoro Islands).
Common to abundant in its habitat.

Taxonomy

Clements treats this as conspecific with Anjouan Brush Warbler but IOC does not. The opus awaits further clarification of the situation before making changes.

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies[1]:

  • N. t. moheliensis:
  • N. t. obscura:
  • N. t. typica:

Habitat

Undergrowth of dense primary and degraded forest, also in secondary growth, gardens and plantations. Occurs from sea-level up to 2700 m.

Behaviour

Diet

Feeds on insects.
Forages in bushy vegetation and dense shrubbery, sometimes on the ground. Forages alone or in pairs. Forages much lower on Mohéli than Moheli Brush Warbler.

Breeding

Breeding season from August to February, mainly October to December in Madagascar. The nest is a cup made of woven dry grasses and lined with softer material. It's placed close to the ground in thick grass tuft or in a bush. Lays two eggs.

Movements

This is a sedentary species.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2018)

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