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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3.8
A bird calling...
China (Sou..., Nov 2007
Keith Blomerley
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4.5
seldome seen, ...
Thailand, Jan 2010
Peter Ericsson
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3.8
much more hear...
Thailand, Jan 2010
Peter Ericsson
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3.2
A difficult bi...
Bhutan, Apr 2011
Ken Havard
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A bird singing in a bush. Locality Labahe Nature Reserve, Tianquan County, Sichuan, China (Northern)
herve jacob 1 May 2009 3 years ago 4 -
song at 3100 meters elevation Locality Singalila National Park, West Bengal, India
(ssp castaneocoronata)
Niels Poul Dreyer 19 April 2003 11 weeks ago 0
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