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Photo by Peter Ericsson
Location: Doi Inthanon, Thailand, July 2006

Phylloscopus maculipennis

[edit] Identification

• Yellow rump
• Pale yellow wing bars
• Grey ear-coverts
• Grey throat, which extends down to the breast
• Yellowish belly and undertail coverts
• Long greyish supercilium
• Pale grey crown stripe
• Dark grey sides to the crown
• White outer tail feathers
• Grey-yellow underparts
• Dark legs and bill

[edit] Distribution

Asia: found in China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Eastern and Western Himalayas, Bhutan
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 2 subspecies:

• P. m. virens:

• Northern India (Kashmir and northern Punjab to Arunachal Pradesh)

• P. m. maculipennis:

• Eastern Himalayas to south-eastern Tibet, south-western China, northern Myanmar and northern Indochina

[edit] Habitat

Temperate and moist lowland forests, to at least 2565m in Thailand

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Vocalisation

Its call is a short zit.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia]
4. delhibird.net

• List of references

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