Pygmy Cupwing

What the Pygmy Cupwing sounds like

Recorded by steve · Song · Mianyang, Sichuan, China · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Pygmy Cupwing

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pygmy Cupwing

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Taiwan, Bangladesh.

About the Pygmy Cupwing

The pygmy cupwing or pygmy wren-babbler, is a species of bird in the Pnoepyga wren-babblers family, Pnoepygidae. It is found in southern and eastern Asia from the Himalayas to the Lesser Sunda Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Taiwan CupwingPnoepyga formosanaThe bird is 8 to 9 cm long. Scaly-breasted CupwingPnoepyga albiventerThe scaly-breasted cupwing is a very small babbler with almost no tail, around 9 cm long and weighing between 19 and 23 g. Nepal CupwingPnoepyga immaculataThe Nepal cupwing is small, measuring 8.5cm—10cm in length, and is brownish-olive in colouration.