Adult male © Yeray Seminario eBird S40494733 Macaulay Library ML 75901901
Adult female © John C. Mittermeier
Adult male © Sam Woods
Adult female © Nigel Voaden
Adult male © John C. Mittermeier

wanga maskowa Calicalicus rufocarpalis

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Identification

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Small vanga that is built like a chickadee or tit. Male is colorful and female plain brownish. Madagascar endemic that is found very locally in spiny forest growing on limestone. Only described to science in the 1990s. Most common vocalization is a two- or three-part rising whistle. Separated from much more widespread Red-tailed Vanga by its pale eye and additional red on the shoulder.

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