Black-chinned yuhina

Black-chinned yuhina
From Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary in West Bengal, India.
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Zosteropidae
Genus:	Yuhina
Species:	Y. nigrimenta
Binomial name
Yuhina nigrimenta Blyth, 1845

The black-chinned yuhina (Yuhina nigrimenta) is a bird species in the white-eye family Zosteropidae.

It is found in the Indian subcontinent from the Himalayas eastwards to contiguous hilly regions of Southeast Asia. The species ranges across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, as well as subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Black-chinned Yuhina Yuhina nigrimenta, at Sindhuli Gadi, Nepal

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Yuhina nigrimenta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22716750A94509276. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22716750A94509276.en.

• Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70–291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.