| Black-chinned Yuhina Yuhina nigrimenta |
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Shemgang, Bhutan The Black-chinned Yuhina is distributed from northern India along the foothills of the Himalayas to central and southern China, Myanmar and Indochina. It is found in broadleaved evergreen forest at between 300 and 2,300 metres. |
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The smallest yuhina at about 10cm (4 inches) it has black lores and chin and a black crest with grey streaks. The rest of the head is grey and upperparts are grey brown. Below the black chin, the throat is white and remaining underparts are buffy-grey. The upper mandible is horn-coloured while the lower is reddish-orange | |||
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They feed on insects, berries, nectar and seeds both in the tree canopy and the
undergrowth.
There are recordings on xeno-canto and additional information is available via Avibase. |
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