Cisticolas & Allies

Plain Prinia

Prinia inornata

The plain prinia, or the plain, or white-browed wren-warbler (Prinia inornata) is a small warbler in the Cisticolidae family. It is a resident breeder from Pakistan and India to south China and southeast Asia. It was formerly included in the tawny-flanked prinia, Prinia subflava (Gmelin, 1789), resident in Africa south of the Sahara.

Family

Cisticolas & Allies

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

7.0 g

Habitat

Shrubland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

15

Recorded in Taiwan, India, Thailand, China, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Myanmar, MO.

Where to see it: Vientiane · That Luang Lake & fields (Lao PDR); Vientiane · Donkoi fields & river (Lao PDR); 台北華江IBA · 華江雁鴨公園(華江橋至中興橋)(Huajiang IBA · Huajiang Wild Duck Nature Park (Huajiang to Zhongxing Bridge)) (Taiwan); Phum Tla (Cambodia); Nong Khamsen wetland (Lao PDR).

Photo: Rison Thumboor from Thrissur, India, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons