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Photo by Jugal Tiwari
Thorn forest of Phot mahadeo Kutch, Gujarat, India
Pericrocotus erythropygius

Identification

15–16·5 cm (6-6½ in), a species with long tail and short bill
Male

  • Glossy blue-black head, mantle and back
  • Black uppertail coverts while rump is white with orange center
  • Wings have white greater coverts and scapulars, rest is dark
  • Black tail with white outer edges
  • White underside with orange patch just below the black lower throat

Female

Photo by vaibhav mishra
Kutch, Gujarat, India December 2011
  • black on upperside replaced by brownish-grey
  • White supercilium
  • White throat, sides of head, and underside

Similar species

In addition to other species of Minivets, it is worth considering Stonechats

Distribution

India (Punjab and Rajasthan to Bihar and Mysore).

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Jerdon's Minivet was recently split from this species.

Habitat

Prefers open dry savannah with grasslands and open dry scrub forest with grasslands

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of insects, which includes grasshoppers and spiders.

Breeding

The pair share the construction of the nest, which is a small tidy cup formed from grass and fibres and lined with flowering grass

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2021. IOC World Bird List (v11.1). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.11.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved June 2017)
  3. Suryawanshi, K. (2020). White-bellied Minivet (Pericrocotus erythropygius), version 2.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman and B. K. Keeney, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.whbmin3.02

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