Profile
In flight
Songbirds
White-eared Sibia
Heterophasia auricularis
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
Taiwan's silver-headed singer, trailing a long ear-stripe like an Edwardian feather. Its rising, ringing whistle is the soundtrack of any mid-mountain morning.
- Population
- Taiwan endemic; common in mountain forest
- Habitat
- Taiwan endemic; mid-elevation broadleaf and mixed forest, 1,000–2,500 m, including forest edge and tea plantations
- Diet
- berries, fruit, nectar, insects
- Size
- 0.23 m
- Wingspan
- 0.3 m
