The rediscovery of the Cebu Flowerpecker Dicaeum Quadricolor, with notes on other forest birds on Cebu, Philippines
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Bird Conservation International
- Vol. 3 (3) , 235-243
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959270900000927
Abstract
The Cebu Flowerpecker Dicaeum quadricolor, considered extinct since 1906, was rediscovered in a very small (<2 km2) patch of largely degraded forest near Tabunan, Cebu island, Philippines, in 1992. This patch also holds at least four of the five other bird forms endemic to Cebu that are known to be extant. There appears to be no other forest with any closed canopy elsewhere on the island, and the Tabunan site, although within the Central Cebu National Park, could disappear within five years (through clearance for firewood by local villagers) without immediate intervention.Keywords
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