Blyth's Leaf-warbler Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Phylloscopus cantator
Family : Pycnonotidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : All kind of forests
Description : The Blyth’s Leaf Warbler is a small olive-green leaf warbler with prominent head markings and a habit of flicking one wing at a time (adult bird length approximately 9 cm, weight 8 g, wing 5.7 cm bill 1.2 cm, tarsus 1.7 cm, tail 4.4 cm). The upperparts are bright olive-green, and the underparts a clean whiteish tinged with yellow on the breast, belly and vent. It has a prominent yellowish olive central crown-stripe with the bordering crown dark olive. It has a long pale yellow supercilium and a dark line through the eye. It has two prominent yellowish wing-bars separated by a dark panel on the greater coverts, forming a distinctive wing pattern. Its irises are brown and the legs and feet are plumbeous. Its bill is bicolured: with a dark brown upper mandible and yellow lower mandible. The male and the female look alike. It breeds in the Himalayas in May-July. It feeds chiefly on insects but also takes berries.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Pellorneum ruficeps
(Marsh Babbler) -
Malacocincla abbotti
(Streaked Wren-babbler) -
Yuhina castaniceps
(Oriental White‑eye) -
Orthotomus sutorius
(Common Tailorbird) -
Actinodura egertoni
(Bar-tailed Treecreeper) -
Orthotomus atrogularis
(Dark‑necked Tailorbird) -
Acrocephalus dumetorum
(Blyth's Reed-warbler) -
Paradoxornis flavirostris
(Spot‑breasted Parrotbill) -
Phylloscopus whistleri
(Whistler’s Warbler) -
Alcippe nipalensis
(Common Babbler)
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;photo credit: Markus Lilje(www.inaturalist.org/people/ Markus Lilje),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Scott Connop(www.xeno-canto.org/Scott Connop), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org 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;photo credit: Markus Lilje(www.inaturalist.org/people/ Markus Lilje),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Scott Connop(www.xeno-canto.org/Scott Connop), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.