Brown-cheeked Fulvetta

How to identify

Field marks

1. Gray crown
2. Brown wings and buff underparts
3. Gray bill, short and weak, with a curved upper mandible
4. Some subspecies have dark stripes behind the eyes that meet at the nape

Male, female and young

Sexes indistinguishable.

Voice

Loud, multisyllabic whistles in the morning and afternoon, especially loud at dawn.

Where and when it's recorded

Brown-cheeked Fulvetta has been recorded at 112 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 6 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Kanha NP – Mukki ZoneIndia6,051 records
2. Kanha NP – Kanha ZoneIndia1,092 records
3. Bondla Wildlife SanctuaryIndia913 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaThailandChinaBangladeshMyanmar (Burma)Laos

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The brown-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe poioicephala) is a babbler-like bird belonging to the family Leiothrichidae 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.

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