Alternative name: Yellow-bellied Bush Warbler
- Cettia acanthizoides
Includes: Hume's Bush Warbler
Identification
11cm
- Brown upperparts
- White or pale buff supercilium
- Dark eyestripe
- Greyish-white chin and throat
- Buffy breast
- Pale yellow belly and flanks
- Small, very fine bill (dark above, pinkish below)
- Dark brown iris
- Pinkish-brown feet
- Short tail
Distribution
Asia: China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Eastern and Western Himalayas, Bhutan and Taiwan
Southeast Asia: Indochina and Myanmar.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are three subspecies.1
- C. a. acanthizoides
- Himalayas
- C. a. brunnescens
- Tsangpo Valley, southeastern Tibet - sometimes split as Hume's Bush Warbler
- C. a. concolor
- Mountains of Taiwan
Habitat
Tall grassy areas and dense bamboo thickets; forests.
Behaviour
Breeding
Its nest is a ball or deep cup made from dry grass, leaves, moss, spider webs, and feathers, placed low in a bush or thick undergrowth.
Vocalisation
<flashmp3>Yellowish bellied Bush Warbler West Wawu August 2011.mp3</flashmp3>
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Includes a flight call from a Minivet, and a Lesser Cuckoo at the end.
Recording by china guy, Sichuan, China, September 2011
References
- Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- Avibase
- Birding in Taiwan
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellowish-bellied Bush Warbler. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 5 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellowish-bellied_Bush_Warbler
