Trilling tailorbird

Trilling tailorbird
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Orthotomus
Species: O. chloronotus
Binomial name
Orthotomus chloronotus
Ogilvie-Grant, 1895

The trilling tailorbird or green-backed tailorbird (Orthotomus chloronotus) is a species of bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae. The bird is endemic to the Philippines.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

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