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Velvet asity
Male
Female
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Philepittidae
Genus:	Philepitta
Species:	P. castanea
Binomial name
Philepitta castanea (Müller, 1776)

The velvet asity (Philepitta castanea) is a species of bird in the family Philepittidae. It is endemic to Madagascar.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests .

Male P. castanea have yellow tips to its feathers when newly molted, but these wear off, leaving the bird all black; at the same time, a green wattle grows above the eye. The female is greenish.

Velvet asities eat berries and other fruit in undergrowth, including gastonia duplicata. They build hanging nests with a little roof over the entrance. They tend to be sedentary.

References

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Philepitta castanea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22698763A130195996. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22698763A130195996.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. "asity | bird". Retrieved 2016-08-04.
3. Bashaw, Thaddeus. "The Role of Frugivorous Birds as Seed Dispersers: Feeding Selection and Preference of Madagascar’s Avian Frugivores in Analamazaotra Forest." (2022).
4. Barbon, Hannah; Berthoud, Jean-Louis; Woog, Friederike; Musa, Sandrine (2023-11-10). "Haemosporidian parasite infections of Malagasy Philepittidae and Nectariniidae are driven by phylogeny rather than ecology". Parasitology. 150 (14): 1316–1329. doi:10.1017/s0031182023001075. ISSN 0031-1820. PMC 10941219.

• https://www.britannica.com/animal/asity#ref129199

External links

• Media related to Velvet asity at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Velvet asity at Wikispecies

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