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red-billed Leiothrix
Leiothrix lutea
29.3656, 79.5367
Field Notes
Description:
Upperparts olive-green; dull, buffy-yellow lores and eye-ring; yellow, orange, crimson and black in wings; forked-tail, with black tip and edges; yellow throat, orange-yellow breast diagnostic; scarlet beak
Female - has yellow, instead of crimson in wings.
Red on wings considerably reduced or absent in the western race
Photo taken at Sattal, Uttarakhand, India
Habitat:
Forest undergrowth; bushy hillside; plantations, between 600-2700 m.
Notes:
Info taken from: Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
By – Bikram Grewal, Sumit Sen, Sarwandeep Singh, Nikhil Devasar and Garima Bhatia
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