Birds of the World

○   ←   PASSERIFORMES: Philepittidae (Asities)   →
Genus: Philepitta (2 species)


Velvet Asity
Velvet Asity (Philepitta castanea)
Range: AF: nw, e Madagascar
Mantadia, Madagascar   		 
Photograph by Bradley Hacker   © All Rights Reserved.

Velvet Asity
Velvet Asity (Philepitta castanea) Male
Range: AF: nw, e Madagascar
Mantadia, Madagascar   		 
Photograph by Bradley Hacker   © All Rights Reserved.

Velvet Asity
Velvet Asity (Philepitta castanea) Female
Range: AF: nw, e Madagascar
Anjozorobe, Madagascar   		 
Photograph by Nigel Voaden   © All Rights Reserved.
A 'sedentary' forest species. In breeding plumage the male is all black with a green bare-skin brow.

Schlegel's Asity
Schlegel's Asity (Philepitta schlegeli) Near Threatened
Range: AF: nw, wc Madagascar
Ankarafantsika NP, Madagascar   		 
Photograph by Nigel Voaden   © All Rights Reserved.


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