Bar-throated Minla

The bar-throated minla, also called the chestnut-tailed minla or bar-throated siva, is a member of the laughingthrush and babbler family (Leiothrichidae), traditionally placed in Minla but now in Actinodura. It is found in montane forest from India to Malaysia; eight subspecies have been described, of which six are widely accepted. It is mainly resident but may move to lower altitudes in harsh winters (Wikipedia, general species account).

Two to four eggs are laid in a cup of grass, bamboo leaves, lichen and birch bark. In summer the diet is almost exclusively insects, taking beetles, caterpillars and others, and outside the breeding season it joins flocks of other babblers and yuhinas, feeding from the canopy down to near the forest floor (Wikipedia, general species account).