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ForestCup nestSmall · 23 g
What the Scarlet Minivet sounds like
ID tip
The orange minivet measures about 17 – 22 cm and weighs 19 – 24.5 g. Males are bright orange and black while females are largely yellow with a grey upperside. Males have a glossy black head, chin, throat and mantle and upper back. Lower back, rump and uppertail-coverts are orange-red. Underparts are largely bright orange-red, that makes it stand out in the surroundings. It can be distinguished from other Pericrocotus species by isolated red markings near tips of tertials and inner secondaries. Females have a yellow forehead and ashy-grey, lower back.
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When to see the Scarlet Minivet
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Scarlet Minivet
The map shades 6 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 Hong Kong SAR China, Malaysia.
About the Scarlet Minivet
The orange minivet is a brightly colored bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae. It is found all along the Western Ghats and west coast of India and Sri Lanka. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the scarlet minivet which is considered to have a wider distribution in eastern and northern India and South-east Asia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. The orange minivet is a species resident in southern India and Sri Lanka, that feeds primarily on insects while foraging in mixed-species bird flocks or in small single-species groups.
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Easily confused with
Grey-chinned MinivetPericrocotus solarisThe grey-chinned minivet is 17–19 cm (6.7–7.5 in) long and weighs 11–17 g (0.39–0.60 oz).
Long-tailed MinivetPericrocotus ethologusThe long-tailed minivet is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae.
Ashy MinivetPericrocotus divaricatusIt is 18.5–20 cm long.
Side by side: Scarlet Minivet vs Small Minivet · Grey-chinned Minivet vs Scarlet Minivet · Ashy Minivet vs Scarlet Minivet
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