Cuckoo-shrikes (Campephagidae)
Grey-chinned Minivet (Pericrocotus solaris) - HBW 10, p. 117
French: Minivet mandarin
German: Graukehl-Mennigvogel
Spanish: Minivet Gorgigrís
Other common names: Mountain/Yellow-throated Minivet; Grey-throated Minivet (cinereigula)
Taxonomy: P[ericrocotus] solaris Blyth, 1846, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
Distinctive race montanus sometimes treated as a separate species, a possibility that deserves further study. Eight subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- solaris Blyth, 1846 - C & E Himalayas (WC Nepal E to Assam) and N & W Myanmar.
- rubrolimbatus Salvadori, 1887 - E & SE Myanmar and N Thailand.
- montpellieri La Touche, 1922 - S China (N Yunnan).
- solaris Blyth, 1846 - C & E Himalayas (WC Nepal E to Assam) and N & W Myanmar.
- rubrolimbatus Salvadori, 1887 - E & SE Myanmar and N Thailand.
- montpellieri La Touche, 1922 - S China (N Yunnan).
- griseogularis Gould, 1863 - SE China (Guizhou, N Guangxi, C & S Hunan, Guangdong, NW & E Fujian), Taiwan, Hainan, NE Laos and N Vietnam.
- deignani Riley, 1940 - S Laos and C Vietnam (C & S Annam).
- nassovicus Deignan, 1938 - SE Thailand and S Cambodia.
- montanus Salvadori, 1879 - Peninsular Malaysia and W Sumatra.
- cinereigula Sharpe, 1889 - N Borneo.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male on a branch and then a brief view of a female high in a tree Locality Doi Suthep National Park, North Western Thailand, Thailand (ssp rubrolimbatus)
Josep del Hoyo 10 November 2004 5 years ago 13 sec 4.5 -
A male moving from leaf to leaf. Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia (ssp montanus)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 August 2006 3 years ago 15 sec 4.2 -
A female on top of a branch, then flying away. Locality Bach Ma National Park, Annam, Vietnam (ssp deignani)
Josep del Hoyo 23 April 2008 4 years ago 25 sec 4.2 -
A male flycatching from a leave, calling softly, as are congeners nearby. Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia (ssp montanus)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 August 2006 3 years ago 27 sec 4.2 -
male captures long legged grasshopper and devours it Locality Phan Thiet Road, Di Linh, Annam, Vietnam (ssp deignani)
Martin Kennewell 8 February 2013 6 weeks ago 21 sec 4 -
A male on top of a tree calling, then flying away. Locality Bach Ma National Park, Annam, Vietnam (ssp deignani)
Josep del Hoyo 23 April 2008 4 years ago 21 sec 4
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A male in a leafless tree.
Locality Bach Ma National Park, Annam, Vietnam (ssp deignani)
Josep del Hoyo 23 April 2008 4 years ago 4 -
female gray-chinned minivet 灰喉山椒鳥 in the high canopy of acacias near New Garden City, Xindian, Taipei, Taiwan wet lowland broad
Locality Taiwan (ssp griseogularis)
phormosa 10 October 2008 4 years ago 4 -
Male, taken at Wulai, Taipei County.
Locality Taiwan (ssp griseogularis)
alder 7 February 2009 4 years ago 3.7 -
A female.
Locality Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan (ssp solaris)
Ken Havard 26 April 2011 1 year ago 3.6 -
A female on top of a branch.
Locality Bach Ma National Park, Annam, Vietnam (ssp deignani)
Josep del Hoyo 23 April 2008 4 years ago 3 -
Female, taken at Wulai, Taipei County.
Locality Taiwan
alder 7 February 2009 4 years ago 3
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Calls by a few birds. Locality Dong, Chiayi County, Taiwan
(ssp griseogularis)
Josep del Hoyo 20 April 2011 1 year ago 3.3
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