Local Name: Visayan Broadbill / Visayan Wattled Broadbill

Scientific Name: Sarcophanops samarensis

Classification:
a. Domain: Eukaryote
b. Kingdom: Animalia
c. Phylum: Chordata
d. Class: Aves
e. Order: Passeriformes
f. Family: Euraylaimidae
g. Genus: Sarcophanops
h. Species: samarensis

Found in: islands of Samar, Leyte and Bohol in the central Philippines

Status of the Organism: this species is listed as Vulnerable because extensive habitat loss
has caused rapid population declines

Significances:

 Broadbills play an important part in controlling invertebrate populations throughout their

range.
 Also aid in seed dispersal

Facts:

 The broadbills are for the most part insectivorous and carnivorous. Prey taken include
insects, spiders, centipedes and millipedes, as well as lizards and tree frogs.
 One of the brightest colored broadbills.

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