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The golden-breasted fulvetta is a small bird, measuring 10–11.5 cm (3.9–4.5 in) in length with a mass between 5 and 10 g (0.18 and 0.35 oz). The head and crown are black or grey and the black wings have orange-yellow slashes. The secondaries are tipped white and brown tail has two thirds of the base edged in orange yellow. The underparts are predominantly yellow and the throat may be grey or yellowish depending on the populations. The presence, prominence and colour of the median crown stripe varies with populations. The sexes are indistinguishable by plumage.
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When to see the Golden-breasted Fulvetta
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Golden-breasted Fulvetta
The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Myanmar (Burma).
About the Golden-breasted Fulvetta
The golden-breasted fulvetta is a species of songbird found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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Easily confused with
Reed ParrotbillParadoxornis heudeiThe reed parrotbill species is known to have significantly short, wide, and deep bills.
Black-throated ParrotbillSuthora nipalensisThe black-throated parrotbill is a parrotbill species often placed with the Old World babblers or in a distinct family Sylviidae, but it actually seems to belong to the distinct 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.
Side by side: Golden-breasted Fulvetta vs Reed Parrotbill
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