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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Phylloscopus tephrocephalus
(Grey-crowned Warbler) -
Tesia cyaniventer
(Chestnut-crowned Bush-warbler) -
Turdinus brevicaudata
(Indian Grass-babbler (Rufous‑rumped Grassbird)) -
Abroscopus superciliaris
(Mountain Tailorbird) -
Pnoepyga pusilla
(Pygmy Cupwing (Wren Babbler)) -
Locustella certhiola
(Pallas's Grasshopper-warbler) -
Pellorneum ruficeps
(Marsh Babbler) -
Garrulax leucolophus
(Rufous‑necked Laughingthrush) -
Horornis flavolivaceus
(Eastern Orphean Warbler) -
Cettia castaneocoronata
(Asian Stubtail)
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: 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.