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Cordillera Ground Warbler (Robsonius rabori)

Cordillera Ground Warbler
Museum specimen photograph: Rand, 1960 via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Cordillera Ground Warbler

The Cordillera ground warbler (Robsonius rabori), also known as Rabor's wren-babbler or the Luzon wren-babbler, is a species of bird currently placed in the family Locustellidae. It is endemic to the Philippines, where it is found in northwest Luzon in the foothills of the Cordillera Mountain Range.s natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. It was formerly conspecific and forms a species complex with the Bicol ground warbler and Sierra Madre ground warbler, which are some of most elusive birds in the country due to their extremely shy nature. Among these three elusive species, the Cordillera ground warbler is the rarest and most threatened. It has only been photographed once in the wild. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Source: Cordillera ground warbler on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 2 recordings for this species: 2 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.

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