Grey-cheeked Fulvetta | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Timaliidae |
Genus: | Alcippe |
Species: | A. morrisonia |
Binomial name | |
Alcippe morrisonia Swinhoe, 1863 |
The Grey-cheeked Fulvetta (Alcippe morrisonia) is a species of bird in the Old World babbler family.
It is found in China, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam in evergreen mountain forests.
This 15 cm long bird has a grey head with a white eye ring and long black eye stripe running from the bill down the sides of the neck.The upperparts are olive and the underparts are yellow.
Its call is a weak chi-chi-chu-chui. It will readily join mixed-species feeding flocks.