Endangered
Bernier's Vanga
Oriolia bernieri
Bernier's vanga is a bird species in the family Vangidae.
The perching bird
Published measurements include mass about 55.
Perching birds: the largest bird order. A species may be a babbler, a sparrow, a manakin, or a leafbird.
This is a named wild bird with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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
Bernier's Vanga 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 Bernier's Vanga — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2668021. 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.
