Yellow‑bellied Warbler Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Urosphena squameiceps
Family : Cettiidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Yellow-bellied Warbler is a small, brownish passerine of dense bamboo with a yellow belly and white breast (length 9 cm, weight 6.5 g, wing 5 cm, bill 1.3 cm, tarsus 2 cm, tail 4.2 cm). It looks dull olive from above with a greyish crown and yellow from below. It has brownish-grey fore-crown, and the rest of the upperparts are dull olive, with plain brown wings and tail lacking any markings. It has a wide white supercilium above a narrow dark eye line and mottled greyish ear-coverts. It has a white throat and breast, and yellow belly, flanks and undertail-covert. Its tail looks brownish-buff from below. Its irises are brown, the bill is horn brown with a pink base to the lower mandible, and the legs and feet are flesh-brown. The male and the female look alike. It feeds mainly on insects and makes short aerial sallies. It breeds in April-June.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Phylloscopus tenellipes
(Large‑billed Leaf-warbler) -
Mixornis gularis
(Rufous-fronted Babbler) -
Paradoxornis guttaticollis
(White-breasted (Greater Rufous‑headed) Parrotbill) -
Acrocephalus orinus
(Large-billed Reed-warbler) -
Turdinus brevicaudata
(Indian Grass-babbler (Rufous‑rumped Grassbird)) -
Locustella thoracica
(Spotted Grasshopper-warbler) -
Cettia brunnifrons
(Chestnut‑headed Tesia) -
Iduna rama
(Sykes's Warbler) -
Phylloscopus magnirostris
(Yellow‑vented Warbler) -
Phylloscopus occipitalis
(Grey‑hooded Warbler)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills
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Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters
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Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits
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Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas
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Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby
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Flamingo
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Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch
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Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths
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Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes
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Nightjars -
Barn-owls
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Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: jessie_h(www.inaturalist.org/people/jessie_h),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: jessie_h(www.inaturalist.org/people/jessie_h),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;more information, please contact us.