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title: "Orange Minivet"
description: "Pericrocotus flammeus — Uccelli. The orange minivet (Pericrocotus flammeus) is a brightly colored bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/orange-minivet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Orange Minivet

> Pericrocotus flammeus — Uccelli. The orange minivet (Pericrocotus flammeus) is a brightly colored bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae.

- Scientific name: *Pericrocotus flammeus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 1889
- Wikidata: [Q605732](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q605732)
- iNaturalist taxon: [717333](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/717333)

## Names

- en: Orange Minivet
- de: Scharlachmennigvogel
- es: Minivet Escarlata
- fr: Grand minivet
- nl: Oranje menievogel
- pt: Minivete-escarlate
- pl: Purpurek ognisty

## Countries with the most observations

IN (1126), LK (423)

## Summary

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.
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. 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…

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

## Photo

![Orange Minivet](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/orange-minivet/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stuart · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/251536736

## Machine access

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