The Maroon-breasted Philentoma (Philentoma velata) is a bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

. Long placed in the flycatcher family

Family (biology)

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 (Muscicapidae) when these were used as a "wastebin taxon

Wastebin taxon

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", they are now tentatively assigned to the Prionopidae pending detailed study.
It is found in Brunei

Brunei

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, Indonesia

Indonesia

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, Malaysia, Myanmar

Myanmar

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, Singapore

Singapore

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, and Thailand

Thailand

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Its natural habitat

Habitat

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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest

Forest

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s and subtropical or tropical swamp

Swamp

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It is threatened by habitat loss.