Critically Endangered
Sangihe whistler
Coracornis sanghirensis
Sangihe whistler is a perching bird in the family Pachycephalidae (order Passeriformes) — Coracornis sanghirensis, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Indonesia.
The perching bird
Originally, the Sangihe shrikethrush was described in the genus Pinarolestes.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Sangihe Island in Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Specifically, it lives in ridgetop forests with large trees and full canopy cover.
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 loss.
Sangihe whistler is Critically 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 Sangihe whistler, Wikidata item Q27075307. 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.
