Grey-hooded fulvetta

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Grey-hooded fulvetta
Fulvetta cinereiceps.jpg

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradoxornithidae
Genus: Fulvetta
Species:
F. cinereiceps
Binomial name
Fulvetta cinereiceps
(Verreaux, 1870)
Synonyms

Alcippe cinereiceps

The grey-hooded fulvetta (Fulvetta cinereiceps) is a bird species in the family Sylviidae. Like the other typical fulvettas, it was long included in the Timaliidae genus Alcippe.

Formerly, F. cinereiceps was known as Manipur fulvetta, the birds properly referred to with this name have been split off and are now usually treated as a distinct species, F. manipurensis. Another former subspecies of F. cinereiceps that is nowadays usually considered distinct is the Taiwan fulvetta (F. formosana).

Its natural habitat are temperate forests. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.

References[]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Fulvetta cinereiceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22735182A95105024. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22735182A95105024.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.


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