Eastern Orphean Warbler Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Horornis flavolivaceus
Family : Cettiidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Bushes
Description : The Orphean Warbler is a small grey passerine with a blackish head (length 15 cm, weight 22 g, wing 8.2 cm, bill 2 cm, tarsus 2.4 cm, tail 7 cm). The male differs from the female. The adult male has a bluish-grey back, rump and upper tail coverts, dark wings with grey fringes and white outer feathers on its blackish tail. Its crown and cheeks are black, the throat is white and the belly is pale off-white. The female has a similar pattern but with a pale brownish-grey back and wings, dark grey crown, and black ear-coverts. Both sexes have grey-white to pale straw irises, dark brown bills and olive-brown to slate-grey legs and feet. The juvenile has a grey crown and mantle, dark grey ear-coverts and grey irises. It breeds in Central Asia in April-June. It feeds mainly on insects, occasionally on snails, berries and nectar.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Phylloscopus xanthoschistos
(Slaty‑bellied Tesia) -
Locustella certhiola
(Pallas's Grasshopper-warbler) -
Sylvia crassirostris
(Lesser Whitethroat) -
Zosterops palpebrosus
(Red-billed Scimitar-babbler) -
Phylloscopus whistleri
(Whistler’s Warbler) -
Tesia cyaniventer
(Chestnut-crowned Bush-warbler) -
Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps
(White‑browed Scimitar-babbler) -
Laticilla burnesii
(Puff‑throated Babbler) -
Phylloscopus tenellipes
(Large‑billed Leaf-warbler) -
Graminicola bengalensis
(Brown‑cheeked Fulvetta)
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: David Beadle (www.inaturalist.org/people/David Beadle ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;David Edwardsmore 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: David Beadle (www.inaturalist.org/people/David Beadle ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;David Edwardsmore information, please contact us.