Sumba Flycatcher

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

The Sumba Flycatcher is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Sumba Flycatcher (Ficedula harterti) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. References - * BirdLife International 2004. Ficedula harterti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007. Stub icon This article about an Old World flycatcher is a stub. More

prefers the taller forest areas, and the brown Sumba flycatcher can be found in damp gullies. The Sumba green-pigeon and apricot-breasted sunbird favor the more open forests. Twenty mammal species live in this ecoregion as well, but none is endemic. Cause for Concern Almost 75 percent of this ecoregion has been cleared, mostly for agriculture. Only a few relatively small, scattered patches of intact forest remain. Livestock grazing, poaching, and burning of grasslands to establish agricultural fields are ongoing threats. More

Other new birds include a very cooperative Sumba Flycatcher, which showed well in the understory and a single Wallacean Cuckoo-Shrike. After our lunch in the field we walked back to the village in the scoring heath. We gave our local guide Yunus some money for his assistance and drove back to our losmen. Late afternoon we just relaxed a bit. More