Endangered
Long-billed forest warbler
Artisornis moreaui
The long-billed forest warbler, also known as the long-billed tailorbird, is a songbird of the family Cisticolidae, formerly part of the "Old World warbler" assemblage.
Appearance
The upper parts are greyish and the underparts a rather paler grey. The head sometimes has a brownish tinge, and bears filoplumes. The beak is long and slender, and the tail is long and is frequently cocked when the bird is excited.
The long-billed forest warbler is a small, plump, inconspicuous warbler, growing to a length of about 10 cm (4 in).
Range and habitat
Subspecies moreaui is endemic to the East Usambara plateau in Tanzania. The East Usambara plateau is known as a biodiversity hotspot and has many endemic species. The Mozambique forest warbler (Long-billed forest warbler sousae) is endemic to the Njesi Highlands of northern Mozambique.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat destruction.
Long-billed forest warbler is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Long-billed forest warbler, Wikidata item Q3315365. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
