Sulphur-breasted Warbler

Gold crown- Warbler (Phylloscopus ricketti )

The gold crown- Warbler (Phylloscopus ricketti ) is a passerine bird in the genus of warblers (Phylloscopus ). The specific epithet honors the British banker and amateur ornithologist Charles Boughey Rickett (1851-1943), a long time in Asia was a bird collector.

Features

The gold crown- warbler is one with a size 10 to 11 centimeters of the medium sized warbler species. It is characterized by a bright yellow underside and also bright yellow head stripes. On the black crown sides protruding head drawings can be seen. About the crown center runs a greenish yellow stripe. At the neck are seen sometimes gray Strichel. About The long eye-streak is bright yellow. The reins and the eyes are black stripe. The yellow cheeks and ear-coverts are washed-out olive. The top is bright grünoliv. The yellow tips of the large upper wing-coverts form a wing bandage.

Dissemination

The breeding areas are located in central, southern and eastern China ( in southern Gansu and Sichuan, east to Hubei and Fujian, south to Guizhou, northern Guangxi and eastern Guangdong) and in Central Laos and northern Vietnam ( Central Annam ). As a winter visitor was the kind in the northern and eastern Thailand, southern Laos and detected in northern Vietnam ( Tonkin western and eastern, northern Annam ).

Habitat

The gold crown warbler inhabits deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, juniper forests, sparse vegetation and stunted bushes on slopes. It is to be observed at altitudes up to 1500 m.

Way of life

Little is known about its breeding behavior and his walks. The breeding season is between May and July. Eggs, nestlings found in June in July. The nest is on the ground between boulders or about one meter above the ground in the vegetation. After the breeding season the species moves to the south. The gold crown Warbler goes singly or in pairs in the canopy in search of food. It feeds on small invertebrates. He is very active, running and jumping through the leaves and gathers its food at the leaves and the branches. He often makes use of the treetops hunting for insects.

Outside the breeding season it is often associated with other species of birds.

Status

The IUCN classifies the gold crown Warbler as a not at risk ( least concern ). In the breeding areas in China, he is described as not frequent. In the wintering areas in Central Laos, in north-central Vietnam, Thailand and Indo-China, he is a non- frequent to locally frequent guest.