| Orange minivet | |
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| Male in South India | |
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| Female in Sri Lanka | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Campephagidae |
| Genus: | Pericrocotus |
| Species: | P. flammeus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pericrocotus flammeus (Forster, 1781)
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The orange minivet (Pericrocotus flammeus) is a brightly colored bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae. It is found all along the Western Ghats and west coast of India and Sri Lanka.[2] It was formerly considered a subspecies of the scarlet minivet which is considered to have a wider distribution in eastern and northern India and South-east Asia.[3] Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. The orange minivet is a species resident in southern India and Sri Lanka, that feeds primarily on insects while foraging in mixed-species bird flocks or in small single-species groups.
- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Pericrocotus flammeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22706766A130430325. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22706766A130430325.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ "Orange Minivet".
- ^ "Scarlet Minivet - eBird". ebird.org. Retrieved 2022-02-23.