Whiskered Yuhina
Yuhina flavicollis Hodgson, 1836
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
The whiskered yuhina (Yuhina flavicollis) is a bird species in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. Its range extends across the Himalayan forests in northern India to northeast Indian states, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and in the east to Indochina including Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. The whiskered yuhina is sometimes found in mixed hunting parties with other yuhina and fulvetta species, but it has also been reported to not associate with mixed hunting parties in some areas. It is described as one of the commonest yuhinas in the Himalayas, although it is relatively uncommon to rare at low elevations. It prefers relatively undisturbed closed canopy cover. It is one among several other birds hunted by livestock herders in Northeast India.
Wikipedia contributors, Whiskered yuhina; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T05:48:07.235938+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Yuhina flavicollis Hodgson, 1836
- Name authority
- Hodgson, 1836
- Common name
- Whiskered Yuhina
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- Genus
- Yuhina
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classAves
- orderPasseriformes
- familyZosteropidae Bonaparte, 1853
- genusYuhina Hodgson, 1836
- speciesYuhina flavicollis Hodgson, 1836
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Yuhina. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Striated YuhinaYuhina castaniceps (Moore, 1854) | ZosteropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chestnut-crested YuhinaYuhina everetti (Sharpe, 1887) | ZosteropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rufous-vented YuhinaYuhina occipitalis Hodgson, 1836 | ZosteropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yuhina torqueola (Swinhoe, 1870) | ZosteropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-naped YuhinaYuhina bakeri Rothschild, 1926 | ZosteropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Taiwan YuhinaYuhina brunneiceps Ogilvie-Grant, 1906 | ZosteropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-collared YuhinaYuhina diademata J. Verreaux, 1869 | ZosteropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Stripe-throated YuhinaYuhina gularis Hodgson, 1836 | ZosteropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Burmese YuhinaYuhina humilis (Hume, 1877) | ZosteropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-chinned YuhinaYuhina nigrimenta Blyth, 1845 | ZosteropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=563762 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:5CTCN. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.