Chestnut-crowned warbler

Chestnut-crowned warbler
At Fambong Lho Wildlife Sanctuary, Sikkim, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Phylloscopidae
Genus: Seicercus
Species: S. castaniceps
Binomial name
Seicercus castaniceps
Hodgson, 1845

The chestnut-crowned warbler (Seicercus castaniceps) is a species of leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae). It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.

It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Nine subspecies are recognised across its range, and it forms a superspecies with the Sunda warbler and the Yellow-breasted warbler.[2][3]

It is arboreal and primarily insectivourous. Though not considered migratory, it may make small seasonal movements to higher or lower elevations.[4]

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