Santo Thicketbird

Santo ThicketbirdThis bird is recorded on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. Specimen comparisons describe a small black facial mask and a pale tawny-buff throat and upper breast.What does it look like?Hadden's comparison of specimens describes a brownish-olive head and back with a small black facial mask. The throat and upper breast are tawny buff; the Santo specimens were the palest of the compared populations.How does it live?This bird is recorded on Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. Specimen comparisons describe a small black facial mask and a pale tawny-buff throat and upper breast.The first specimen, collected on Espiritu Santo in 1926, came from montane forest at about 760 m on the western side of the island. Further specimens were collected on the island in 1933–1935.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.