Whiskered Yuhina
Yuhina flavicollis
Distinguished-looking small songbird with a brown mohawk of a crest. Brown above and white below with an orange nape and a small black mustache stripe. Slender white eye crescents give it a “spectacled” appearance on top of a whiskered one. Like other yuhinas, a very social bird, often seen foraging in the lower and middle levels of hilly broadleaf forests, sometimes with other species. Calls are usually an explosive pair or triad of notes that can be likened to “pee-bee!” or “pee-ah-bee!”
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Yuhina flavicollis
- Authority
- Hodgson, 1836
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- Genus
- Yuhina
Range and habitat
- Migration
- Vertical migration
Conservation
- Population trend
- unknown
Photos
Distribution
Bird Calls
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