Black-breasted Fruit-hunter

Black-breasted Fruit-hunter
Black-breasted Fruit-hunter
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Genus: Chlamydochaera
Species: C. jefferyi
Binomial name
Chlamydochaera jefferyi
Sharpe, 1887

The Black-breasted Fruit-hunter (Chlamydochaera jefferyi) is an enigmatic species of bird nowadays placed with the typical thrushes in the family Turdidae. It is endemic to forests on the south-east Asian island Borneo.

It is highly distinct from other thrushes, instead being convergent to Corvoidea such as trillers (Lalage) or true orioles (Oriolus). Thus, it is placed in a monotypic genus Chlamydochaera.[citation needed]

The Black-breasted Fruit-hunter is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.

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