Grey-cheeked Fulvetta

Grey-cheeked Fulvetta
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.

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