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Identical Markings With Beautiful Diagrammatically Opposing Colors Make This Bird The Perfect His And Hers Pair – Meet The Grey-chinned Minivet!

Generally speaking, on the female, where the male has orange the female will be yellow, making for a lovely contrast between the two sexes.

A his and hers bird with identical markings with one major difference, his orange belly is replaced with yellow on her belly.

Meet the Grey-chinned minivet

Photo (frame reduced) Courtesy of 孫鋒 林 / CC BY-SA 2.0

The grey-chinned minivet (Pericrocotus solaris), is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. The adult male has a dark gray head and mantle with a pale grey chin. His throat is an orange-yellow throat and blackish wings. His belly and lower back are a bright shade of orange. He also has a bright orange comma-shaped slash on his wings with the tips of his greater wing coverts being orange too.

Photo (frame reduced) Courtesy of 孫鋒 林 / CC BY-SA 2.0

Generally speaking, on the female, where the male has orange the female will be yellow, making for a lovely contrast between the two sexes.

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On both sexes the eyes, legs, and beak are black. Juveniles tend to look more like the female, however, they do have yellow-olive bars on their backs.

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The range for this bird is from the eastern foothills of the Himalayas down through to northeastern India, southern China, mainland Southeast Asia, into Sumatra and Borneo.

Photo (frame reduced) Courtesy of 孫鋒 林 / CC BY-SA 2.0

In its range, the Gray-chinned minivet likes to live in the montane forest up to an elevation of around 3,300-6,600 feet. Preferring to live in the canopy of broadleaf forest, but also coniferous forest, elfin forest, and secondary forest. It has also seen on forest edges and gardens with trees.

When this bird is not in its breeding season it forms small groups of fewer than 15 birds as well as sometimes larger flocks of dozens of birds, while foraging for invertebrates in the canopy. Sometimes it descends to tall tree ferns, flitting from tree to tree. It tends to give a twittering call while feeding.

Breeding has been recorded from February to April when the male brings his prospective mate a flower, touching her beak with it. Once the pair has mated, a nest is constructed by both sexes on a branch or fork of a tree. Lichen is added to the sides for camouflage, and the female shapes the interior by pushing against it with her breast. Hatchlings are raised by both the male and female, subadults have also been seen helping out.

Photo (frame reduced) Courtesy of 孫鋒 林 / CC BY-SA 2.0

Due to its large range and relatively stable population, the Gray-chinned minivet has been assessed at least-concern species on the ICUN list.

Watch and listen to this bird right here in the video below:

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