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Small Minivet
Latin Name:
Pericrocotus cinnamomeus
Category:
Size:
15cm
Description:
Male: dark grey head, back and throat; orange-yellow patch on black wings; black tail; flame-orange breast; orange-yellow belly and undertail. Female: paler above; orange rump; dusky white throat, breast tinged with yellow; yellowish belly and under tail. Pairs or small flocks; keep to tree-tops, actively moving amidst foliage; flutters and flits about in an untiring hunts for small insects, often in association with other small birds; also hunt flycatcher style.
Habitat:
forests, groves, gardens, tree-dotted cultivation.
Food:
chiefly insects; sometimes flower nectar.
Distribution:
most of India, up to about 900m in outer Himalaya; absent in arid parts of Rajasthan.
Call:
Call Description:
soft, low swee…svee… notes uttered as birds hunt in foliage.
IUCN:
National Status:
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