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Black browed fulvetta

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Kingdom
  
Genus
  
Alcippe

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

Family
  
Pellorneidae

Scientific name
  
Alcippe grotei

Higher classification
  
Alcippe

Order
  
Passerine

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Similar
  
Mountain fulvetta, Mindanao miniature babbler, Collared babbler, Nepal fulvetta, Sumatran babbler

The black-browed fulvetta (Alcippe grotei) is a 15.5 to 16.5 cm long species of passerine bird in the Pellorneidae family. It is found in subtropical or tropical moist montane evergreen forests, adjacent secondary growth and bamboo in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

It is often considered conspecific with the mountain fulvetta, Alcippe peracensis, but the two forms differ in morphology and vocalisations, and are separated altitudinally. Black-browed fulvetta occurs primarily below 400 m, and mountain fulvetta above 900 m.

Both have a warm brown back and tail, whitish underparts, a grey face and a slate grey crown edged below with a black line. Black-browed has brown flanks and a weaker white eyering; it has been described as a bit like a cross between mountain and grey-cheeked fulvetta.

The black-browed has a song yu-chi-chiwi-chuwoo, yu-uwit-ii-uwoo, whereas the mountain is yi-yuii-uwee-uwee.

References

Black-browed fulvetta Wikipedia


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