Endangered
Chuuk Monarch
Metabolus rugensis
Chuuk Monarch is a perching bird in the family Monarchidae (order Passeriformes) — Metabolus rugensis, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The plumage of this species is sexually dimorphic, with the male having almost entirely white plumage with a black face and throat and the female having entirely black plumage. The large bill is pale blue.
The Chuuk monarch is a large monarch flycatcher, around 20 cm long.
Range and habitat
The natural habitats of the Chuuk monarch are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and plantations. It is endemic to the islands of Chuuk in Micronesia.
It is threatened by habitat loss, with the development of the islands and the loss of its forest home.
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
Chuuk Monarch 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 Chuuk Monarch, Wikidata item Q841830. 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.
