White-breasted (Greater Rufous‑headed) Parrotbill Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Paradoxornis guttaticollis
Family : Paradoxornithidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Greater Rufous-headed Parrotbill is a small passerine with a rufous head, buff underparts and a stubby bill (length 15 cm, wing 9 cm, bill 1.5 cm, tarsus 2.8 cm, tail 8.3 cm). Its entire crown, ear-coverts and nape are deep rufous-orange and the rest of the upperparts are plain olive brown including the longish graduated tail. The underparts are uniform pale buff. It has a short swollen bicoloured bill: a dark brownish upper mandible and grayish lower mandible. Its irises are reddish-brown, a patch of blue orbital skin extends from the bill to around the eye, and its legs and feet are bluish-grey. The male and the female look alike. The juvenile has a paler rufous-orange head. It feeds on insects and seeds. It breeds in April-July.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Alcippe nipalensis
(Common Babbler) -
Phylloscopus humei
(Hume's Leaf-warbler) -
Phylloscopus inornatus
(Yellow-browed Warbler) -
Chrysomma sinense
(Black‑breasted Parrotbill) -
Horornis flavolivaceus
(Eastern Orphean Warbler) -
Cettia brunnifrons
(Chestnut‑headed Tesia) -
Tesia cyaniventer
(Chestnut-crowned Bush-warbler) -
Cettia castaneocoronata
(Asian Stubtail) -
Orthotomus sutorius
(Common Tailorbird) -
Phylloscopus tephrocephalus
(Grey-crowned 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: Judd Patterson (www.inaturalist.org/people/Judd Patterson ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Masato Nagai (Japan)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: Judd Patterson (www.inaturalist.org/people/Judd Patterson ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Masato Nagai (Japan)more information, please contact us.