PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 383 (Observe the Bird and recognize)..GREEN CROWNED/GOLDEN SPECTACLED WARBLER[From a Photograph of SHANTANU BHATTACHARYA]...WATERCOLOUR...A4...2014... The green-crowned warbler (Seicercus burkii) is a species of leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae). It was formerly included in the Old World warbler assemblage. It is found in the Indian subcontinent, ranging across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Sylvia Burkii E. Burton, 1836, Sikkim, Himalayas, north India. Formerly treated as conspecific with S. tephrocephalus, S. whistleri and S. valentini, and included also the populations recently described as S. omeiensis and S. soror. All of these, however, exhibit constant differences in morphology, vocalizations and mitochondrial DNA, and up to four are syntopic (mainly or completely segregated altitudinally). Mitochondrial DNA also suggests that present species and S. tephrocephalus are more closely related to S. affinis and S. poliogenys than to the four other aforementioned species. Monotypic. Breeds in Himalayas from N India (Himachal Pradesh) E to S China (SE Xizang); non-breeding E India and SW Bangladesh. 11–12 cm; one bird 7·3 g. A medium-sized warbler with wide-based bill and strong Song consists of short (c. 0·6–1 second) abrupt strophes of varied whistled notes. Breeds in upper part of tropical, mostly evergreen, broadleaf forest zone, and in warm temperate. Known to eat insects, but no studies undertaken. Feeds mainly in understorey; catching of prey often involves short flights.
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