Spot‑breasted Parrotbill Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Paradoxornis flavirostris
Family : Paradoxornithidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Spot-breasted Parrotbill is a medium sized olive-brown passerine with a black ear patch and stubby yellow bill (length 19 cm, weight 26 g, wing 8 cm, bill 1.7 cm, tarsus 2.6 cm, tail 10 cm). The upperparts are entirely warm brown with a rufous-cinnamon crown and nape, and long graduated tail. It has white cheeks specked with dark, and black ear-coverts. Its underparts are pale buff with arrow-shaped black spots and streaks on the throat and upper breast. It has brown to red-brown irises, short rounded wax-yellow bill and slaty-grey legs and feet. The male and the female look alike. It feeds on seeds and insects. It breeds in the hills of northeast India in April-June.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Malacocincla abbotti
(Streaked Wren-babbler) -
Alcippe poioicephala
(Nepal Fulvetta) -
Chrysomma sinense
(Black‑breasted Parrotbill) -
Pellorneum palustre
(Spot‑throated Babbler) -
Horornis fortipes
(Aberrant Bush-warbler) -
Phylloscopus intermedius
(White‑spectacled Warbler) -
Trichastoma tickelli
(Abbott's Babbler) -
Timalia pileata
(Pin-striped Tit-babbler) -
Argya earlei
(Jungle Babbler) -
Phylloscopus reguloides
(Western Crowned Leaf-warbler)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
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 -
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 -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch -
Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths -
Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
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: porag(www.inaturalist.org/people/porag),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Peter Boesmanmore 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: porag(www.inaturalist.org/people/porag),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Peter Boesmanmore information, please contact us.