Plain Prinia on Sunflower
The plain prinia, also known as the plain wren-warbler or white-browed wren-warbler, is a small cisticolid warbler found in southeast Asia.
Feature:
Body length 15 cm. Iris orange-brown. The beak is black during the breeding period, brown during the non-breeding period, and the base of the lower beak is pink. Feet pink.
Breeding feathers are brown on the head, milky yellow on the cheeks, white on the eyebrow line, eyes, and ear feathers, brown on the back, taupe on the wings, slightly yellow on the waist, light brown on the tail feathers, very long, almost accounting for the length of the body, with light-colored horizontal bands, Except for the central pair of tail feathers, the ends are white.
The chest is off-white, the abdomen is yellow-white, and the flanks and undertail coverts are light yellow-brown. The non-breeding feathers resemble the breeding feathers, but the back is russet, and the tail feathers are gray at the end with black spots.
Distributed:
A subspecies of bird endemic to Taiwan. It usually inhabits riverbeds, grasses, and farmland at an altitude of 700 meters to 1200 meters.
It is a resident breeder from Pakistan and India to south China and southeast Asia.
Video Source: 褐頭鷦鶯/Plain Prinia from Chuenguey Hwang on Youtube ⁄ CC BY
