Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of White-tipped Monarch (Symposiachrus everetti), recorded as Endangered
White-tipped Monarch (Symposiachrus everetti). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

White-tipped Monarch

Symposiachrus everetti

White-tipped Monarch is a perching bird in the family Monarchidae (order Passeriformes) — Symposiachrus everetti, recorded as Endangered.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Symposiachrus everetti
Taxonomy
Aves · Passeriformes · Monarchidae · Symposiachrus

Appearance

The Tanahjampea monarch or white-tipped monarch is a bird in the family Monarchidae.

Range and habitat

It is endemic to Indonesia's Tanah Jampea, the second largest of the Selayar Islands group in the Flores Sea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. 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

White-tipped 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 White-tipped Monarch, Wikidata item Q1304739. 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.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Photograph of Vaquita (Phocoena sinus), recorded as Critically EndangeredCR

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Quick answers

What is White-tipped Monarch?
White-tipped Monarch is a perching bird in the family Monarchidae (order Passeriformes) — Symposiachrus everetti.
What is the conservation status of White-tipped Monarch?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Symposiachrus everetti. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does White-tipped Monarch live?
It is endemic to Indonesia's Tanah Jampea, the second largest of the Selayar Islands group in the Flores Sea.
Why is White-tipped Monarch in crisis?
It is Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Symposiachrus everetti?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is White-tipped Monarch a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.