• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Mountain Bulbul - BirdForum Opus

Revision as of 05:57, 16 November 2017 by Aloktewari (talk | contribs) (Image of nominate subspecies.)
Page Discussion
View source History
Ixos mcclellandii

Hypsipetes mcclellandi

Photo by Peter Ericsson
Fraser's Hill, Malaysia.

Identification

24cm
Stocky appearance. Fine whitish streaks on brown crown and greyish brown throat and breast is diagnostic.
Mantle, wings and tail rich olive yellow; belly whitish; undertail coverts yellowish.
Crown feathers sometimes raised in short shaggy crest.

Distribution

Himalayas, southern China, south-east Asia and the Malay Peninsula.

Taxonomy

Sometimes also placed in genus Hypsipetes

Subspecies[1]

Nominate subspecies
Photo by Alok Tewari
Sat Tal forest edge, Alt. 5200 ft., Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, October-2017

There are 9 subspecies:

  • I. m. mcclellandii: Eastern Himalayas (western Uttar Pradesh to eastern Assam)
  • I. m. ventralis: SW Burma (Chin Hills and Arakan Yoma Mts.)
  • I. m. tickelli: Eastern Burma (northern Shan States) to north-westerb Thailand
  • I. m. similis: North-eastern Burma (Kachin) to south-western China (Yunnan) and northern Indochina
  • I. m. holtii: Southern China (Sichuan to Fujian and Guangdong)
  • I. m. loquax: Northern and eastern Thailand to southern Laos (Bolavens Plateau)
  • I. m. griseiventer: Southern Vietnam (Langbian Plateau)
  • I. m. canescens: South-eastern Thailand (Khao Kuap region)
  • I. m. peracensis: Peninsular Thailand to northern Malaysia (Selangor and Pahang)

Habitat

Forests and forest edges.

Behaviour

Rather sluggish. Usualy in loose parties of up to five.Usually keeps to leafy cover but will sometimes perch in the open. Tame and confiding.

Diet

Feeds in fruiting trees and shrubs together with other birds. Often obtains berries by hovering clumsily below strands of them.

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.
  2. BF Member observations

Recommended Citation

External Links

Retrieved from ‘https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mountain_Bulbul&oldid=228515’
Back
Top