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Pycnonotus goiavier

Photo by suleesia
Photo taken: Malaysia.

[edit] Identification

20cm. Olive brown crown, nape, underparts, white face and side of head, eyebrow, throat, belly, black lores, breast whitish streaked brown, yellow under tail coverts, black bill, feet, eyes. No white on tail.

[edit] Distribution

Southeast Asia from Myanmar, Singapore to the Philippines and Java.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Mangroves and coastal scrub, parks, gardens, and plantations.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet is wide and includes berries and small fruits, especially figs and cinnamon tree fruits, nectar, young shoots, and insects.

They build well-camouflaged but flimsy, loose, deep, cup-shaped nests from grass, leaves, roots, vine stems, twigs, neatly lined with plant fibres. 2-5 white or pinkish with lots of reddish-brown to lavender spots eggs are laid. Both parents incubate and raise the young.

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