Grey-hooded Fulvetta
| Grey-hooded Fulvetta | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sylviidae |
| Genus: | Fulvetta |
| Species: | F. cinereiceps |
| Binomial name | |
| Fulvetta cinereiceps (Verreaux, 1870) | |
| Synonyms | |
Alcippe cinereiceps
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The Grey-hooded Fulvetta (Fulvetta cinereiceps) is a bird species in the family Sylviidae. Like the other typical fulvettas, it was long included in the Timaliidae genus Alcippe.
Formerly, F. cinereiceps was known as Manipur Fulvetta, the birds properly referred to with this name have been split off and are now usually treated as a distinct species, F. manipurensis. Another former subspecies of F. cinereiceps that is nowadays usually considered distinct is the Taiwan Fulvetta (F. formosana).
Its natural habitat are temperate forests. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
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