Bar-throated minla with nesting material or chestnut-tailed minla (Actinodura strigula), or even bar-throated siva,

Bar-throated minla with nesting material 

or chestnut-tailed minla 

(Actinodura strigula), 

or even bar-throated siva, 

Zuluk

Pangolakha wildlife sanctuary

East Sikkim

April2022

Nikon Gears

This is a species of bird in the laughingthrush and babbler family Leiothrichidae. Traditionally, it has been placed in the genus Minla but is now placed in Actinodura.

The species is mainly resident but may move to lower altitudes during harsh winters, coming as low as 1,300 m (4,300 ft). Among the forest types it may occur in are evergreen broadleaf forest, mixed broadleaf and evergreen forest, pine forest, pine or oak and rhododendron forest, rhododendron or bamboo stands.

The diet of the bar-throated minla varies by season; during the summer months it is almost exclusively insectivorous, taking beetles, caterpillars and other insects. In the winter months it will also take berries, seeds, and nectar. It will join flocks of other babblers and yuhinas in the non-breeding season, and feeds from the canopy down to near the forest floor. Two to four eggs are laid in a cup of grass, bamboo leaves, lichen and birch bark