Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)
Chestnut-headed Tesia (Oligura castaneocoronata) - HBW 11, p. 586
French: Tésie à tête marron
German: Rotkopftesia
Spanish: Tesia Cabecicastaña
Other common names: Chestnut-headed Ground Warbler
Taxonomy: Sylvia? castaneo-coronata E. Burton, 1836, no locality = Nepal.
Genus often merged with Tesia. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- castaneocoronata (E. Burton, 1836) - Himalayas from N India (W Himachal Pradesh) and Nepal E to N Myanmar, S China (SE Xizang, Sichuan, Guizhou), NW Thailand and N Laos.
- ripleyi Deignan, 1951 - S China (Yunnan).
- abadiei (Delacour & Jabouille, 1930) - N Vietnam (NW Tonkin).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird calling from low vegetation. Locality Ruili, Yunnan, China (Southern) (ssp ripleyi)
Keith Blomerley 17 November 2007 3 years ago 17 sec 3.7
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seldome seen, more often heard, ground dwelling bird of the high mountains in Northern Thailand
Locality Doi Lang, North Western Thailand, Thailand
Peter Ericsson 9 January 2010 10 weeks ago 4.6 -
much more heard then seen
Locality Doi Lang, North Western Thailand, Thailand
Peter Ericsson 9 January 2010 10 weeks ago 3.8 -
A difficult bird to see well.
Locality Sengor, Lhuntse District, Bhutan (ssp castaneocoronata)
Ken Havard 21 April 2011 36 min ago ADDED TODAY! 0
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A bird singing in a bush. Locality Labahe Nature Reserve, Tianquan County, Sichuan, China (Northern)
herve jacob 1 May 2009 2 years ago 4
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