Black-browed fulvetta
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Alcippe grotei

The black-browed fulvetta (Alcippe grotei ) is a 15.5 to 16.5 cm long species of passerine bird in the family Alcippeidae. It is found insubtropical or tropical moist montane evergreen forests, adjacent secondary growth and bamboo in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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It is often considered conspecific with the mountain fulvetta, Alcippe peracensis, but the two forms differ in morphology and vocalisations, and are separated altitudinally. Black-browed fulvetta occurs primarily below 400 m, and mountain fulvetta above 900 m.

Both have a warm brown back and tail, whitish underparts, a grey face and a slate grey crown edged below with a black line. Black-browed has brown flanks and a weaker white eyering; it has been described as a bit like a cross between mountain and grey-cheeked fulvetta.

The black-browed has a song yu-chi-chiwi-chuwoo, yu-uwit-ii-uwoo, whereas the mountain is yi-yuii-uwee-uwee.

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References

1. Black-browed fulvetta Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-browed_fulvetta
2. Black-browed fulvetta on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22734608/95091781

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