Scarlet Minivet

Pericrocotus speciosus

The scarlet minivet is a small passerine bird in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. This minivet is found in tropical southern Asia from Northeast India to southern China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. They are common resident breeding birds in forests and other well-wooded habitats including gardens, especially in hilly country. While the male of most subspecies are scarlet to orange with black upper parts, the females are usually yellow with greyish olive upper parts. Several former subspecies have been elevated to a species status in recent works. These include the orange minivet. All subspecies have the same habits of gleaning for insects and are often seen in mixed-species foraging flocks, usually foraging in small groups, high up in the forest canopy. Source

Where is the Scarlet Minivet now?

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 407 times across 2 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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When does the Scarlet Minivet arrive?

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Arriving at the same time in Asia

• Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla
• Fork-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga christinae
• Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata
• Common Raven Corvus corax
• Black-faced Bunting Emberiza spodocephala
• Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
• Common Crane Grus grus
• Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis

Every arrival in Asia, month by month

Related species

• Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus
• Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus

Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.