Description:

Medium sized accentor, very dull looking, mostly sandy-grey and buff, with black marked head. Adult has broad whitish supercilium, grey-brown upperparts with only very faint streaking, and pale orange-buff underparts with whiter throat. Juvenile has heavily streaked upperparts with rufous-buff cast.

Distribution:

Common resident and altitudinal migrant all across the higher valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan. In summer around dry, rocky boulder-strewn hillsides with low scrub and high barren valleys; in winter often around villages. Usually from 1500m to 4800m.

Behavior:

Forages mainly on ground, also in bushes and even tree crowns; occasionally takes insects in flight. Searches leaf litter in manner of a thrush, and may dig through 4-5 cm of snow to reach soil surface. Mainly feeds on invertebrates including beetles, earwigs, bugs, mayflies, flies and spiders; and also seeds. Invertebrates dominate in summer; seeds, supplemented by small berries, in winter.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Brown Accentor in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Brown Accentor

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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