Brown Parrotbill

When to see the Brown Parrotbill

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Brown Parrotbill

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Brown Parrotbill

The brown parrotbill is a parrotbill found in the central and eastern Himalayas. It is also known as the brown suthora. This is a 17–19 cm (6.7–7.5 in) long grey-brown bird with a long tail and a characteristic small, yellowish, parrot-like bill. A dark stripe runs above the eyes and along the sides of the crown. The bird moves in small groups and will sometimes join mixed species foraging flocks. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal.

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Easily confused with

White-breasted ParrotbillParadoxornis ruficepsThe white-breasted parrotbill is a bird species often placed with the Old World babblers or in a distinct family Paradoxornithidae, but it actually seems to belong to the Sylviidae. Spot-breasted ParrotbillParadoxornis guttaticollisThe spot-breasted parrotbill is a species of bird in the family Paradoxornithidae. Grey-headed ParrotbillParadoxornis gularisThe grey-headed parrotbill is a parrotbill in the family Sylviidae and is found in eastern Asia from the Himalayas to Indochina and Hainan.