Rufous Sibia
Heterophasia capistrata
Attractive orange arboreal bird with blue-tinged wingtips and a black, weakly crested head. Common in foothill and montane forests, where it forages in the crowns of trees. Social, as sibias tend to be, frequently foraging in groups both with its own species and with others. Listen for its song, a pleasant-sounding but unremarkable series or phrase of notes on nearly the same pitch.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Heterophasia capistrata
- Authority
- (Vigors, 1831)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Leiothrichidae
- Genus
- Heterophasia
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
- Population trend
- unknown
Photos
Distribution
Bird Calls
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