The Visayan Pygmy-babbler (Sterrhoptilus pygmaeus) 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...

 endemic to the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. The genus

Genus

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 Sterrhoptilus

Sterrhoptilus

Sterrhoptilus is a songbird genus recently separated from Stachyris and usually placed in the family Timaliidae. Together with other "Old World babblers" of the yuhina group, it is a close relative of the white-eyes however, and like these might arguably be placed in a distinct family...

was formerly included in Stachyris

Stachyris

Stachyris is a genus of bird in the Timaliidae family.It has been found to be polyphyletic and is in the process of being dismantled. At the moment the genus contains the following species:*Stachyris group...

and is usually placed in the family

Family (biology)

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 Timaliidae. It is a close relative of the white-eye

White-eye

White-eye can refer to:*White-eye , a large family of birds.*White-eye , a species of fish.*White-eye mutation, a mutation in Drosophila melanogaster linked to the X chromosome, found by reciprocal cross breeding experiments in 1906.*A lioness member of the Marsh Pride of lions that have featured...

s however, and like these might arguably be placed in a distinct family Zosteropidae.

It was formerly included with the Mindanao Pygmy-babbler

Mindanao Pygmy-babbler

The Mindanao Pygmy-babbler is a bird species endemic to the Philippines. The genus Sterrhoptilus was formerly included in Stachyris and is usually placed in the family Timaliidae...

 (S. plateni) under the common name of "Pygmy Babbler".

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 moist montane forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.