Grey-chinned Minivet

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has a dark gray head and back and a pale gray chin
2. Male has an orange-yellow throat
3. Male has orange underparts and lower back
4. Male has blackish wings and orange tips to the greater coverts

Male, female and young

In the female, these orange areas are replaced by bright yellow; immatures resemble the female, with yellow-olive barring on the back.

Voice

Twitters while foraging; contact calls include the high-pitched “sri-sisi” and “chirit-chirit”.

Where and when it's recorded

Grey-chinned Minivet has been recorded at 504 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 11 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Tai Po Kau Nature ReserveHong Kong (China)1,976 records
2. Kinabalu Park – HQ areaMalaysia1,566 records
3. Bukit FraserMalaysia1,222 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaMalaysiaThailandVietnamBhutanIndiaIndonesiaMyanmar (Burma)

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 grey-chinned minivet (Pericrocotus solaris) is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found from the Himalayas to China, Taiwan (China) and Southeast Asia. Its natural habitat is forests about 1,000–2,000 m (3,300–6,600 ft) in elevation.

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