GREY-CHINNED MINIVET

Male, photographed at Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, April 2017

1170              GREY-CHINNED MINIVET              Pericrocotus flammeus    

MALAYSIA              84

Prefers crown of tall trees, in lowland evergreen rainforest from extreme lowlands to c. 1,000 m and in peat-swamp forest. 19 cm. Resident in Malaysian Peninsula.

Female

SMALL MINIVET

March 2017

1126         SMALL MINIVET             Pericrocotus cinnamomeus

SRI LANKA            155

Found in open forest and bushes with open trees. 16 cm. Uncommon breeding resident in lowlands and up to mid hills.

SCARLET MINIVET

Photographed in Chitin NP, Nepal, March 2017

1034                SCARLET MINIVET               Pericrocotus flammeus 

NEPAL            120  

Usually found in broadleaf forest. 22-23 cm. Common and widespread resident. 

NOTE:    Orange Minivet P. flammeusis considered conspecific with Scarlet Minivet P. speciosus, together known as Scarlet Minivet P flammeus.