Yellow-browed Oxylabes

The Madagascar Yellowbrow is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found only in Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The Yellow-browed Oxylabes is classified as Near Threatened (NT), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.

Grey-crowned Greenbul, Yellow-browed Oxylabes and Common Sunbird-Asity at the wetlands we should look out for the rare Meller’s Duck, Madagascar Snipe, Madagascar Little Grebe, even the super rare Slender-billed Flufftail has been recorded here. Other good birds include Henst’s Goshawk, Madagascar Partridge and Madagascar Buttonquail. Day 7 Early morning drive back to the capital Tana from where we catch a flight to the coastal town of Mahajanga. More

looking for sunbird-asities and Yellow-browed Oxylabes, both of which remained elusive. After lunch, four people went looking for lemurs and were very successful with both Greater and Golden Bamboo Lemur, the latter not known to exist until 1985 when it was first described to the outside world. In the afternoon, the birders located a few new birds including Red-fronted Coua, White-throated Oxylabes and Brown Emutail just before dark. More