White-browed fulvetta

White-browed fulvetta
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Paradoxornithidae
Genus:	Fulvetta
Species:	F. vinipectus
Binomial name
Fulvetta vinipectus (Hodgson, 1837)
Synonyms
Alcippe vinipectus

The white-browed fulvetta (Fulvetta vinipectus) is a bird species in the family Paradoxornithidae. Like the other typical fulvettas, it was long included in the Timaliidae genus Alcippe or in the Sylviidae.

Ranging across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, it is endemic to Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Gallery

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  Head pattern of F. v. chumbiensis from Sikkim, India
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  Species F. v. chumbiensis from Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary, Sikkim, India
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  In Phoolchoki Forest, Godawari, Lalitpur Nepal.

References

• BirdLife International 2004. Alcippe vinipectus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.
• Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.