Citrine Canary-Flycatcher

The citrine canary-flycatcher is a small, slightly crested songbird roughly 10–12 cm long, with a slender bill, bright yellow-green body and darker olive or brownish wings and tail. Its name refers to the yellow, citrine-like colour. Despite the English name, it belongs to Stenostiridae, the fairy-flycatcher family, rather than the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae (Wikipedia account; general identification profile).

It occurs in Sulawesi and the Philippines, chiefly in moist montane forest, although field summaries also report it from lower and higher elevations. Birds catch insects in flycatcher fashion and may join mixed-species flocks; documented companions include white-eyes, monarchs, flowerpeckers, tits, sunbirds and babblers. A Macaulay Library recording from Lore Lindu places a territorial adult in thick elfin moss forest above 2,000 m. No species-specific reproduction study was found (Forktail observations; Macaulay Library record; Holistic Birding review).