The Ogea monarch or versicolored monarch (''Mayrornis versicolor'') is a species of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
in the family
Monarchidae.
It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to two islands,
Ogea Driki and
Ogea Levu
Ogea Levu (pronounced ) is a coral island on a barrier reef in Fiji's Southern Lau archipelago. With an area of , it is situated at 19.18° South and 178.47° West, east of Fulaga. It has a maximum altitude of .
A area covering both Ogea Levu a ...
, in the
Lau Group of south eastern
Fiji.
Its natural
habitat
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is subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forest
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s. The species is little known, it feeds on insects and is thought to breed around July. Alternate names for the Ogea monarch include the Fiji versicolored monarch, Mayr's flycatcher, Ogea flycatcher and versicolored flycatcher.
Status
The species is not thought to be threatened by habitat loss, instead it is considered vulnerable due to its tiny range and the prospect of
introduced predators hunting it. It has been proposed that extra populations be established on other islands to act as a safeguard.
References
Mayrornis
Endemic birds of Fiji
Birds described in 1933
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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