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Spot-throated Flameback (Dinopium everetti)

Spot-throated Flameback
Photo: Chetatata via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Spot-throated Flameback

The spot-throated flameback (Dinopium everetti) is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is endemic to the Philippines only being found in the province of Palawan in the islands of Balabac, Busuanga and Calamian and mainland Palawan. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the common flameback. It is found in moist lowland forests including primary, secondary and even plantations and clearings provided there are still standing trees. It is threatened by habitat loss. Formerly conspecific with the Common flameback but differs in much smaller white eyestripe or supercilium, more mottled underparts and the females have a red nape versus the Common flamebacks black nape.

Source: Spot-throated flameback on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 8 recordings for this species: 8 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Philippines in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.