TELDAP Collections
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Facets of Taiwan
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| White-eared Sibia |
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Description： Medium-sized (23cm) arboreal babbler with black crown and unique white lores, eye-ring and broad white eye-stripe, prolonged backwards and upward-ending in long spreading filamentous plumes. Throat, breast and upper back grey; rest of underparts pinkish-cinnamon, lower back and rump rufous. Tail black with central feathers tipped whitish. Iris--brown; bill--black; feet--pink. Call is resonant repeated fei fei fei...rising at the end or rattling de de de de. Distribution：Endemic to Taiwan Habitat：Common in oak forest of Taiwan from 1200-3000m, locally down to 200m in winter. Ecology： Sometimes gathers in small parties to feed in fruiting and flowering trees. Active and not shy. 
Bird id：B0370Chinese name：白耳畫眉 scientific name：Heterophasia auricularis English name：White-eared Sibia Order： Passeriformes Family：Sylviidae Author：周大慶 Digital Museum of Zoology National Taiwan University
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