White-browed fulvetta

White-browed fulvetta

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Sylviidae
Genus:	Fulvetta
Species:	F. vinipectus
Binomial name
*Fulvetta vinipectus* (Hodgson, 1837)

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

Head pattern of Fulvetta vinipectus chumbiensis from Sikkim, India.

Species Fulvetta vinipectus chumbiensis from Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary, Sikkim, India.

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

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.

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