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Aternative Name: Sangihe Golden-Bulbul

Hypsipetes platenae

Alophoixus platenae; Thapsinillas platenae

Identification

Distribution

Endemic to Sangihe Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Taxonomy

This species was split from Northern Golden Bulbul. Golden Bulbul included this and other related taxa like Buru Golden Bulbul and Seram Golden Bulbul. Both Clements and IOC place this species in the genus Hypsipetes [1],[2]; Howard and Moore [3] and HBW place it in Thapsinillas [4].

Subspecies

This is a monotypic species [1].

Habitat

Behaviour

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. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2014. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0956861122
  4. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, Sargatal J and D Christie, eds. 2013. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Special Volume: New Species and Global Index. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553781

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