The scarlet minivet (Pericrocotus speciosus) is a small passerine bird. This minivet is found in tropical southern Asia from Northeast India to southern China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. They are common resident breeding birds in forests and other well-wooded habitats including gardens, especially in hilly country. While the male of most subspecies are scarlet to orange with black upper parts, the females are usually yellow with greyish olive upper parts. Several former subspecies have been elevated to a species status in recent works. These include the orange minivet. All subspecies have the same habits of gleaning for insects and are often seen in mixed-species foraging flocks, usually foraging in small groups, high up in the forest canopy.
^BirdLife International (2004). "Pericrocotus flammeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. Retrieved 9 May 2006.old-form url
The scarletminivet (Pericrocotus speciosus) is a small passerine bird. This minivet is found in tropical southern Asia from Northeast India to southern...
India and Sri Lanka. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the scarletminivet which is considered to have a wider distribution in eastern and northern...
above, has more extensive scarlet below. The female of the southern race is also brighter yellow below. The small minivet is a widespread and common...
Indian tree pie, house crow, jungle crow, black-headed cuckooshrike, scarletminivet, common iora, red-vented bulbul, common babbler, yellow-eyed babbler...
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include the common iora, red-whiskered bulbul, white-bellied erpornis, scarletminivet, bulbuls and small babblers (Stachyris spp.). The eggs resemble those...
porcupine,[specify] blue jay, black partridge, drongo,[specify] hill crow, scarletminivet, bulbul,[specify] common coot,[specify] and green pigeon.[specify]...
badgers, flying squirrels and bats. Among the birds, the ashy drongo, scarletminivet, grey-headed canary-flycatcher, white-crowned forktail, brown fish...
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