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The bird is more or less brown all over, with an extensive black area on upper breast and uniform rufous-buff remainder of underparts. The similar spot-breasted parrotbill, a close relative, has arrow-shaped spotting on breast and pale buff underparts. The voice is a gruff howh, jeehw or jahw, the song a rhythmic series, aw jahw jahw jahw and uhwi uhwi uhwi uhwi. Alternatively, a higher-pitched wi chi'chi'chi'chi'chi, wi yi'yi'yi'yi'yi; wi'uwi-uwi-uwi wi chu-chu-chu is given.
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When to see the Black-breasted Parrotbill
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Black-breasted Parrotbill
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Black-breasted Parrotbill
The black-breasted parrotbill is a 19 cm (7.5 in) long, large, thick-billed parrotbill with black patches on the head-sides and throat. Formerly placed in the family Sylviidae, the parrotbills are now considered a distinct family, the Paradoxornithidae, following Cai et al. (2019).
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Easily confused with
Great ParrotbillParadoxornis aemodiusThe great parrotbill is a bird species the Paradoxornithidae family.
Rufous-headed ParrotbillParadoxornis bakeriThe rufous-headed parrotbill, or greater rufous-headed parrotbill, is a parrotbill in the family Paradoxornithidae and is found in eastern Asia from the eastern Himalayas to Indochina.
Black-headed ParrotbillParadoxornis margaritaeThe black-headed parrotbill is a bird species often placed with the Old World babblers or in the Sylviidae, but it actually seems to belong to the distinct family Paradoxornithidae.
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