Broad-billed Warbler - BirdForum Opus

Photo by James Eaton
Eaglenest WS, Arunachal Pradesh, India, March 2007

Tickellia hodgsoni

Identification

Subspecies tonkinensis
Photo by nhattanla
Fansipan mt, Sapa, Lao Cai, Vietnam, May 2018

10 cm (4 in)

• Chestnut crown
• Greyish upperparts
• Paler grey throat and breast
• Yellow belly
• Largish flat bill
• Long Rictal bristles

Distribution

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

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1].:

• T. h. hodgsoni:

• Nepal to north-eastern India and western Myanmar

• T. h. tonkinensis:

• South-western China (south-eastern Yunnan) to northern Laos and north-western Tonkin (Vietnam)

Habitat

Dense damp broadleaf evergreen montane forests. Bamboo thickets and undergrowth at forest edges.

Behaviour

Their diet consists almost entirely of insects, which they catch by hovering or flycatching from twigs.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2018)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Broad-billed Warbler. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Broad-billed_Warbler

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