Endangered
Negros striped babbler
Zosterornis nigrorum
Negros striped babbler is a perching bird in the family Zosteropidae (order Passeriformes) — Zosterornis nigrorum, recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Negros Island in the Philippines. Its natural habitat is tropical moist montane forest in the range of 900–1,600 masl. It is threatened by habitat loss.
This is due to Negros Island being one of the most deforested islands in the country and thus has a lack of suitable habitat.
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
Even so, it appears to be limited to areas with some remaining forest cover. IUCN has assessed this bird as Endangered. This species' main threat is habitat loss with wholesale clearance of forest habitats as a result of logging, agricultural conversion and mining activities occurring within the range.
By 1988, Negros only had 4% forest cover remaining and reached 1,250 m on Mt. Among the other four striped babblers (Panay striped babbler, Palawan striped babbler and Luzon striped babbler), this bird is the most endangered with population being estimated to be just 600 - 1,700 individuals.
Negros striped babbler 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 Negros striped babbler, Wikidata item Q1091317. 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.
