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title: "Whiskered Yuhina"
description: "Yuhina flavicollis — Birds. The whiskered yuhina (Yuhina flavicollis) is a bird species in the white-eye family Zosteropidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/whiskered-yuhina
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Whiskered Yuhina

> Yuhina flavicollis — Birds. The whiskered yuhina (Yuhina flavicollis) is a bird species in the white-eye family Zosteropidae.

- Scientific name: *Yuhina flavicollis*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `mountains` (Mountains)
- iNaturalist observations: 687
- iNaturalist taxon: [980037](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/980037)

## Names

- en: Whiskered Yuhina
- de: Gelbnackenyuhina
- es: Yuhina bigotuda
- fr: Yuhina à cou roux

## Countries with the most observations

IN (346), CN (115), BT (57), NP (55), TH (21), MM (15), LA (3)

## Summary

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…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskered_yuhina

## Photo

![Whiskered Yuhina](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/whiskered-yuhina/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/212247527

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/whiskered-yuhina?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).