Chestnut-shouldered Petronia

Latin Name: 
Petronia xanthocollis
Category: 
Size: 
14cm
Description: 

Male has bold chestnut shoulder patches bordered with black and white and a yellow throat patch. Female is identical but both patches duller. Bill yellow, black in male in breeding season. Tail fairly long. Rather pale and featureless in some lights. Has a pipit-like flight. Usually arboreal. Feeds on invertebrates, leaves and nectar, in small groups. Difficult to spot in foliage.

Habitat: 
Inhabits open woodland, forest and thorn-scrub, often near cultivation.
Distribution: 
Locally common resident and local migrant throughout most of Indian plains and hills except extreme Northwest and Northeast. Summer visitor to Pakistan. Vagrant to Sri Lanka and unknown in Bangladesh.
Call: 
Call Description: 
Noisy. A rather high cheep…cheep song. Also calls cheellup and cheep.
National Status: