Chestnut-headed Tesia - BirdForum Opus

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Alternative name: Chestnut-headed Ground Warbler

Nominate
Photo by bambuza
Chiangmai, Thailand, January 2010

Cettia castaneocoronata

Tesia castaneocoronata

Identification

Distribution

Asia: found in China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Eastern and Western Himalayas, Bangladesh and Bhutan,
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand.

Taxonomy

Formerly placed in genus Tesia.

Subspecies

Subspecies ripleyi
Photo by china guy
Wanglang, Sichuan China

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

C. c. castaneocoronata:

Eastern Himalayas to Bangladesh, northern Myanmar, southern Tibet and north-western Thailand

C. c. ripleyi:

South-eastern Tibet to south-western China (Sichuan and Yunnan)

C. c. abadiei:

Northern Vietnam (north-western Tonkin)

Habitat

Moist montanes and lowland forests.

Behaviour

Terrestrial.

Diet

The diet includes insects.

Vocalisation

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Recording by china guy, Sichuan, China, August 2011

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase
Wikipedia

List of references

Recommended Citation

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