Description:

Large, slim, elongated bird, both male and female are quite colorful. Male red and black, with red wing patch extending as narrow panel along tertials and secondaries. Underparts are a scarlet-red, and black throat. Female has yellow wash on forehead and supercilium and pale yellow throat and breast.

Distribution:

Common summer visitor to central parts of Gilgit-Baltistan, mainly Gilgit, Skardu and Astore districts. Prefers open forest types, including broadleaf and pine/fir forests and edges; in winter largely groves and wooded cultivation, at 900-3600m.

Behavior:

Forages chiefly in canopy; gleans, makes aerial sallies, and hovers in front of flowers. May form large flocks outside breeding season. Eats chiefly insects, including orthopterans, hymenopterans, beetles, flies and insect larvae, also spiders; also takes buds and fruits.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Long-tailed Minivet in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Long-tailed Minivet

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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