---
title: "Fahlbürzelmennigvogel"
description: "Pericrocotus cantonensis — Vögel. Swinhoe's minivet or the brown-rumped minivet (Pericrocotus cantonensis) is a bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/brown-rumped-minivet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Fahlbürzelmennigvogel

> Pericrocotus cantonensis — Vögel. Swinhoe's minivet or the brown-rumped minivet (Pericrocotus cantonensis) is a bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae.

- Scientific name: *Pericrocotus cantonensis*
- Category: `birds` (Vögel)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald)
- iNaturalist observations: 799
- Wikidata: [Q1037950](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1037950)
- iNaturalist taxon: [7856](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/7856)

## Names

- en: Brown-rumped Minivet
- de: Fahlbürzelmennigvogel
- es: Minivet de Swinhoe
- fr: Minivet de Swinhoe
- nl: Swinhoes menievogel
- pl: Purpurek brązoworzytny

## Countries with the most observations

CN (278), TH (158), VN (33), HK (19), IN (14), TW (11), KH (9), BD (7), MM (4), MO (3)

## Summary

Swinhoe's minivet or the brown-rumped minivet (Pericrocotus cantonensis) is a bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1861.
It breeds in China and winters in Indochina. Its natural habitats are temperate forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinhoe%27s_minivet

## Photo

![Fahlbürzelmennigvogel](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-rumped-minivet/medium.jpg)

Photo: Don Wellmann · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/262378722

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brown-rumped-minivet?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).