褐頭鷦鶯/Plain Prinia

動物世界(483)
褐頭鷦鶯
別名：
台灣鷦鶯、純色山鷦鶯、純色鷦鶯
學名：
Prinia inornata flavirostris
英文名：
Plain Prinia
特徵：
體長15公分。虹膜橙褐色。嘴繁殖期黑色，非繁殖期褐色，下嘴基粉色。腳粉紅色。
雌雄同型同色。繁殖羽頭上褐色，臉頰乳黃色，眉線、眼先、耳羽白色，背面褐色，翼灰褐色，腰略顯黃色，尾羽淺褐色，甚長，幾乎佔體長一伴，有淡色橫帶，除中央一對尾羽外，末端白色。胸灰白色，腹黃白色，脇、尾下覆羽淡黃褐色。非繁殖羽似繁殖羽，但背面偏赤褐色，尾羽末端灰色，有黑斑。
分布：
台灣特有亞種鳥類。通常棲息於海拔700公尺~1200公尺河床、草叢、農地中。
攝製：
黃春貴

Animal World(483)
Plain Prinia
Alias:
Taiwan Prinia, Solid-colored Mountain Prinia, Solid-colored Prinia
Scientific name:
Prinia inornata flavirostris
English name:
Plain Prinia
Feature:
Body length 15 cm. Iris orange-brown. The beak is black during the breeding period, brown during the non-breeding period, and the base of the lower beak is pink. Feet pink.
Hermaphrodites of the same color. Breeding feathers are brown on the head, milky yellow on the cheeks, white on the eyebrow line, eyes, and ear feathers, brown on the back, taupe on the wings, slightly yellow on the waist, light brown on the tail feathers, very long, almost accounting for the length of the body, with light-colored horizontal bands, Except for the central pair of tail feathers, the ends are white. The chest is off-white, the abdomen is yellow-white, and the flanks and undertail coverts are light yellow-brown. The non-breeding feathers resemble the breeding feathers, but the back is russet, and the tail feathers are gray at the end with black spots.
Distributed:
A subspecies of bird endemic to Taiwan. It usually inhabits riverbeds, grasses, and farmland at an altitude of 700 meters to 1200 meters.
Filming:
Chuenguey Hwang