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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