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Brown-cheeked Fulvetta

Wikipedia: The brown-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe poioicephala) is a babbler-like bird belonging to the family Alcippeidae found in the forests of South and Southeast Asia. It was formerly called the quaker babbler in India and common nun babbler in Malaya. They forage on trees for insects, sometimes hanging from the branches in a tit-like manner, and visiting flowers for nectar. They are often hard to see in vegetation but they have loud multi-note whistling calls in the morning and afternoon.

 

The brown-cheeked fulvetta is a resident breeding bird of moist deciduous and evergreen forests particularly in the hills. They are distributed widely in peninsular India, with other populations to the east of the Brahmaputra river and extending into Southeast Asia. in Bangladesh, India and Southeast Asia.

 

Conservation status: Least Concern

 

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