(Pericrocotus divaricatus)
Size: 18.5–20 cm long
Weight: 25g.
Found: The ashy minivet is a long distance migrant, wintering in South and South-east Asia as far south as Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines.
Description: The male is grey above and whitish below. It has a black cap with a white forehead and there is a white band across the flight-feathers. The outer tail feathers are white. The bill and feet are black. The female’s cap is grey apart from a black band between the bill and eye and a narrow white band above it.
Diet: They often join mixed-species flocks, foraging in the forest canopy for insects and other small arthropods.
Comments: It is one of the few passerine birds that moult their primaries twice in a year and is the longest distance migrant among the minivets.
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