Long-tailed minivet

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| image = Long-tailed Minivet - Bhutan_S4E9727 (17026706092).jpg

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=Pericrocotus ethologus |volume=2018 |page=e.T22706757A130429247 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22706757A130429247.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| taxon = Pericrocotus ethologus

| authority = Bangs & Phillips, JC, 1914

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The long-tailed minivet (Pericrocotus ethologus) is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in southern and south-eastern Asia where it occurs in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Gallery

Image:Long tailed Minivet- Bharatpur I1 IMG 8080.jpg|Male at Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India

Image:Long-tailed Minivet (Female) I IMG 7335.jpg|left|Female at 10000 ft. in Kullu - Manali District of Himachal Pradesh, India

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