Alternative names: Visayan Wattled Broadbill; Samar Broadbill
- Sarcophanops samarensis
Eurylaimus samarensis[1]
Identification
14.5 - 15cm. A distinctive broadbill with prominent blue eye wattles.
- Black throat, lores and ear-coverts
- Broad sky-blue fleshy wattle around eye
- Purple crown
- Mottled grey nuchal collar
- Purple mantle
- Rufous lower back to tail with purple tinge
- Black wings with prominent white wing bar with some lilac-pink on secondaries
- Lilac underparts, yellowish-white centre of belly to undertail-coverts
- Bluish bill
Females have pure white underparts. Juveniles have a dark brown head, a whitish collar, olive and grey-brown upperparts and grey-brown underparts.
Similar species
Smaller than Wattled Broadbill, hindcollar grey (not white), mantle purple (not dark grey).
Distribution
Endemic to Samar, Leyte and Bohol in the Philippines.
A rare restricted-range species. Since 1980 only recorded on Bohol but may still be present on the other two islands.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
It's sometimes regarded as a subspecies of Wattled Broadbill[2] and together with the latter placed in genus Eurylaimus[1].
Habitat
Primary forest, often in areas with limestone outcrops.
Usually in lowlands, recorded at 300 - 750m on Bohol.
Behaviour
Feeds on insects.
Forages at lower level of forest, singly, in pairs or in small groups of up to 5 birds.
Breeding season probably from March to May. No information about nest.
A resident species.
References
- Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
- Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to October 2008 (Corrigenda 8). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2003. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 8: Broadbills to Tapaculos. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334504
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Visayan Broadbill. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 10 January 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Visayan_Broadbill
