Crossley's vanga

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Crossley's vanga

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Crossley's vanga

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Vangidae
Genus:	Mystacornis Sharpe, 1870
Species:	M. crossleyi
Binomial name
*Mystacornis crossleyi* (Grandidier, 1870)

Crossley's vanga (Mystacornis crossleyi), also known as Crossley's babbler-vanga, Crossley's babbler, Madagascar groundhunter, or Madagascar groundjumper, is a bird species in the family Vangidae.

Taxonomy

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The bird is in the monotypic genus Mystacornis. The species is an example of convergent evolution: its bill and body shape adapted to its habit of looking for insect prey in the leaf litter, eventually becoming so similar to that of ground-babblers that early naturalists initially classified the Crossley's vanga into what was then known as the babbler family, Timaliidae.^[2]

Description

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Crossley's vanga is a small babbler-like bird, 15 cm long and weighing around 25 g. Its most distinctive feature is the olive-grey bill, which is disproportionately long and slightly hooked at the end. The plumage of the male is olive green on the crown, back, wings, tail and flanks, a grey belly, black throat and face, with a white submoustachial stripe and grey stripe above the eye. The legs are grey and the iris black. The female is similar but with a white throat and belly.

Behaviour

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Breeding

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The breeding season for this species is from August to November. The male builds a shallow cup nest of twigs and rootlets in a tree or other vegetation around 1.5 m off the ground. Two to three eggs are laid and incubated by both sexes.

Feeding

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It forages singly or in pairs. It is a terrestrial bird that feeds on the ground on spiders, cockroaches, earwigs, true bugs, grasshoppers and ants. It rarely flies but instead walks and runs and probing its bill into leaf-litter, mosses, and soil.

Distribution and habitat

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Crossley's vanga is endemic to Madagascar. It is distributed in the east of Madagascar in broadleaf forest, from sea level up to 1800 m.

References

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^ BirdLife International (2016). "Mystacornis crossleyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22716772A94510337. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22716772A94510337.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ Ulf S Johansson, Rauri C.K Bowie, Shannon J Hackett y Thomas S Schulenberg. The phylogenetic affinities of Crossley's babbler (Mystacornis crossleyi): adding a new niche to the vanga radiation of Madagascar

Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70–291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

External links

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Image at ADW Archived 2004-10-24 at the Wayback Machine

v t e Vangas (order: Passeriformes · family: Vangidae)
Genus	Species
Calicalicus	Red-tailed vanga Red-shouldered vanga
Schetba	Rufous vanga
Vanga	Hook-billed vanga
Xenopirostris	Lafresnaye's vanga Van Dam's vanga Pollen's vanga
Falculea	Sickle-billed vanga
Artamella	White-headed vanga
Leptopterus	Chabert vanga
Cyanolanius	Blue vanga (including Comoro blue vanga)
Oriolia	Bernier's vanga
Euryceros	Helmet vanga
Tylas	Tylas vanga
Hypositta	Nuthatch vanga (or coral-billed nuthatch-vanga)
Newtonia	Dark newtonia Common newtonia Archbold's newtonia Red-tailed newtonia
Mystacornis	Crossley's vanga
Pseudobias	Ward's flycatcher

Genera of corvides and their extinct allies

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Passeri
Infraorder: Corvides

Corvides

Campephagidae	Campephaga Campochaera Ceblepyris Celebesica Coracina Cyanograucalus Edolisoma Lalage Lobotos Malindangia Pericrocotus
Cinclosomatidae	Cinclosoma Ptilorrhoa
Eulacestomatidae	Eulacestoma
Falcunculidae	Falcunculus
Mohouidae	Mohoua
Neosittidae	Daphoenositta
Oreoicidae	Aleadryas Oreoica Ornorectes
Oriolidae	†Longmornis Oriolus Pitohui Sphecotheres †Turnagra
Pachycephalidae	Colluricincla Coracornis Melanorectes Pachycephala Pseudorectes
Paramythiidae	Oreocharis Paramythia
Psophodidae	Androphobus Psophodes
Malaconotoidea	See below ↓
Corvoidea	See below ↓

Malaconotoidea

Aegithinidae

Aegithina

Artamidae

Artaminae	Artamus
Craticinae	Cracticus Gymnorhina †Kurrartapu Melloria Strepera
Peltopsinae	Peltops

Machaerirhynchidae

Machaerirhynchus

Malaconotidae

Pityriasidae

Pityriasis

Platysteiridae

Rhagologidae

Rhagologus

Vangidae

Corvoidea

Corcoracidae

Corcorax
Struthidea

Corvidae

Dicruridae

Dicrurus

Ifritidae

Ifrita

Laniidae

Eurocephalus
Lanius

Melampittidae

Megalampitta
Melampitta

Monarchidae

Monarchinae	Arses Carterornis Chasiempis Clytorhynchus Grallina Mayrornis Metabolus Monarcha Myiagra Neolalage Pomarea Symposiachrus
Terpsiphoninae	Hypothymis Terpsiphone Trochocercus

Paradisaeidae

Platylophidae

Platylophus

Rhipiduridae

Lamproliinae	Chaetorhynchus Eutrichomyias Lamprolia
Rhipidurinae	Rhipidura

Vireonidae

Taxon identifiers
Mystacornis crossleyi	Wikidata: Q2479842 Wikispecies: Mystacornis crossleyi BirdLife: 22716772 BOLD: 118328 BOW: crobab1 CoL: 45FLG eBird: crobab1 GBIF: 2493384 iNaturalist: 15649 IRMNG: 10215226 ITIS: 561432 IUCN: 22716772 NCBI: 98133 Open Tree of Life: 503738 Xeno-canto: Mystacornis-crossleyi

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