Brown Bullfinch (Pyrrhula nipalensis)

Family
Fringillidae (Finches)

Size
16.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hodgson, 1836

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude shrubland, subtropical and tropical moist montane forest. From 1,350 - 3,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan (China), Vietnam.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (43)...)

Brown Bullfinch (Pyrrhula nipalensis) [XC578436]
by Frank Lambert from Xitou, Taiwan (call)

Brown Bullfinch (Pyrrhula nipalensis) [XC876141]
by id from \u7d2b\u6eaa\u5c71\u98ce\u666f\u533a(Zihi mountain scenic area), Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China (call)

Subspecies
Subspecies ricketti scarcely separable from nominate and perhaps better subsumed within it.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

nipalensis Hodgson, 1836 - Himalayas from Himachal Pradesh east to north-eastern India (to southern Assam) and south-western China (south-eastern Xizang).
ricketti La Touche, 1905 - North-eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, south-eastern Assam and Nagaland), southern and south-eastern China (eastern Xizang to western Sichuan, and north-western Yunnan east to Fujian and Guangdong), northern Myanmar and north-western Vietnam (western Tonkin).
uchidai Kuroda, Nagamichi, 1916 - Taiwan.
victoriae Rippon, 1906 - Western Myanmar (Chin Hills).
waterstradti Hartert, 1902 - Mountains of Peninsular Malaysia (Selangor east to Pahang). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Malay Bullfinch (Pyrrhula waterstradti).

References
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Files:

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