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What the Grey-breasted Prinia sounds like
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These 11-to-13-centimetre (4 to 5 in) long warblers have a longish grey tail with graduated feathers that are tipped in white, they have strong pinkish legs and a short black bill. The eye ring is orange. The sexes look alike in most populations except in P .h. pectoralis of Sri Lanka where the female can be told apart by the incomplete breast band. The underparts are buff white and the grey breast band contrasts with the white throat in the breeding season. They have a rufous wing panel and the upperparts are smoky grey during the breeding season and olive brown in the non-breeding period. Voice: In breeding season, the male gives a spirited performance from an exposed perch excitedly warbling his squeaky yousee-yousee-yousee-which-which-which song. A conversational call-note, zee zee zee is uttered as the birds move along.
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When to see the Grey-breasted Prinia
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Grey-breasted Prinia
The map shades 12 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Grey-breasted Prinia
The grey-breasted prinia or Franklin's prinia is a wren-warbler belonging to the family of small passerine birds found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World. This prinia is a resident breeder in the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka and southeast Asia. Like other prinias, it often holds the tail upright but it is easily told by a smoky grey band across the breast which contrasts with a white throat. The beak is all black while the legs are pink. The tail is graduated as in other prinias and the grey feathers are tipped in white. In the breeding plumage the upperparts are grey while non-breeding birds are pale above with rufous wings and a weak supercilium.
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Easily confused with
Graceful PriniaPrinia gracilisThe graceful prinia is a small warbler.
Black-chested PriniaPrinia flavicansBlack-chested prinias are small, long-tailed warblers whose body sizes range from 13 to 15 centimeters.
Karoo PriniaPrinia maculosaThe Karoo prinia is 13–15 cm (5.1–5.9 in) long, with short rounded wings, a longish tail, strong legs and a short straight black bill.
Side by side: Grey-breasted Prinia vs Tawny-flanked Prinia · Black-chested Prinia vs Grey-breasted Prinia · Grey-breasted Prinia vs Karoo Prinia
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