Rhipidura semirubra
Upperparts bright cinnamon-red, lores to ear-coverts dark sooty grey, cheeks white, remiges and greater and median wing-coverts dark brown, lesser coverts brightcinnamon-red, throat contrastingly white, upper breast black, lower part with increasingly broader whitish scaling, lower breast and belly whitish, flanks and undertail-coverts cinnamon buff, tail dark with rufous base and ashy tips to rectrice, iris bill and legs dark brown. Sexes alike. Juvenile undescribed.
Endemic Vulnerable
Upperparts bright cinnamon-red, lores to ear-coverts dark sooty grey, cheeks white, remiges and greater and median wing-coverts dark brown, lesser coverts brightcinnamon-red, throat contrastingly white, upper breast black, lower part with increasingly broader whitish scaling, lower breast and belly whitish, flanks and undertail-coverts cinnamon buff, tail dark with rufous base and ashy tips to rectrice, iris bill and legs dark brown. Sexes alike. Juvenile undescribed.
14.5 cm, 8 g
Taxonomy: Rhipidura semirubra P. L. Sclater, 1877, Admiralty Islands. Forms a superspecies with R. dryas and R. rufifrons, and all three often considered conspecific; all are part of a larger species group that also includes R. teysmanni. (source: Handbook of the Birds of World)
Distribution:
- Admiralty Islands: Manus, San Miguel, Tong, Rambutyo, Pak, Anobat, Sivisa.
Lowland forest, including degraded secondary growth in overgrown coconut plantations. Generally frequent, understorey to mid-tree levels, in some locations, less than 6 m above the ground, but elsewhere up to canopy.
Resident.
Insect
Not described.
Factors involved in decline unknown.