Family Typical Broadbills (Eurylaimidae)
Least Concern
Grey-browed Broadbill (Serilophus rubropygius)
Taxonomy
French: Eurylaime à sourcils gris German: Graubrauen-Breitrachen Spanish: Eurilaimo cejigrís
Taxonomy:
Raya Rubropygia
Hodgson
, 1839,no locality = Nepal
.Distribution:
NE India, Bhutan and NE Bangladesh E to W & NE Myanmar (Arakan, Chin Hills and Upper Chindwin E to R Irrawaddy).
Descriptive notes
16–17 cm; 33–35 g. Adult differs from nominate S. lunatus in having dark grey lores, pale grey crown to upper mantle, darker brownish-grey rest of upperparts, silver... read more
Voice
Song apparently not documented. Calls include a shrill, sharp, staccato and upward-inflected “spik... read more
Habitat
Found in tropical and subtropical broadleaf forest, as well as second growth and frequently in... read more
Food and feeding
Dietary records from India and Myanmar include grasshoppers, mantises (Mantidae), smaller unidentified insects, larvae, caterpillars, also... read more
Breeding
At higher latitudes breeds in spring with arrival of rains, pattern coinciding with movements of the SW monsoon: season Mar–Jun in India... read more
Movements
Resident over most of range, but in Himalayan foothills apparently an altitudinal migrant, moving... read more
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). Formerly considered common, but now disappearing or becoming uncommon to scarce over large areas, although still locally common in NE... read more
Normally treated as conspecific with S. lunatus (previously split, when the two were thought to be sympatric), but differs in its mid-grey vs black supercilium (2); much narrower secondary bar, so that this and primary bar are not adjacent and do not form larger area of blue on wing as in other taxa (3); white subterminal spots on outer web of secondaries, forming white wing-flash (3); tips of longest primaries rounded with narrow white edges vs pointed with broad white edges (ns[3]); underparts darker, more uniform grey (ns[1]); greyer above (crown to back), with no hint of buff or rufous (all other taxa have strong wash of buff or rufous, except polionotus, which still shows trace of rufous on back and scapulars) (ns[1]). Moreover, female appears uniquely to lack white breast-line (greater sampling of taxa needed) and voice may be different#R. Monotypic.