Grey-cheeked fulvetta

Grey-cheeked fulvetta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pellorneidae
Genus: Alcippe
Species: A. morrisonia
Binomial name
Alcippe morrisonia
Swinhoe, 1863
at Chiang Mai, Thailand

The grey-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe morrisonia) is a species of bird in the Pellorneidae family.

Distribution

Year-round resident throughout Southeastern China, Northern Vietnam and Laos, northeastern Myanmar, and Taiwan.[2] In Taiwan in evergreen mountain forests.

Characteristics

This 15 cm long bird has a grey head with a white eye ring and long black eye stripe running from the bill down the sides of the neck.The upperparts are olive and the underparts are yellow.

Its call is a weak chi-chi-chu-chui. It will readily join mixed-species feeding flocks.

Notes

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Alcippe morrisonia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ McKinnon & Phillips, A Field Guide to the Birds of China, plate 108

References

  • Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
  • Lekagul, Boonsong, Round, Philip A Guide to the Birds of Thailand Saha Karn Baet, 1991 ISBN 974-85673-6-2
  • Robson, Craig A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand New Holland Press, 2004 ISBN 1-84330-921-1
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