Critically Endangered
Boano monarch
Symposiachrus boanensis
The Boano monarch, or black-chinned monarch, is a bird in the family Monarchidae endemic to Indonesia.
The perching bird
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
The Boano monarch, or black-chinned monarch, is a bird in the family Monarchidae endemic to Indonesia. It is found on Boano island in the southern Mollucas. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
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.
Boano monarch 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 Boano monarch — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q25260099. 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.
