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Graceful Prinia

(Prinia gracilis)
Alternate name(s): "Graceful Warbler", "Streaked Wren-warbler"
Size: 10-13 cm; wing span: 12-13 cm
Weight: 6-8 g
Description     Classification     Distribution     Sightings     Photos     Breeding     Nest     Eggs     Behaviour     Food     Call/s

Physical description

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Taxonomy, classification

See Graceful Prinia at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat

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Sightings

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Photos

ADULT

MALE

BREEDING

Frontal view of a male Graceful Prinia in breeding plumage; note the black bill
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, January 2010]

Frontal view of a male Graceful Prinia in breeding plumage; note the black bill
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, January 2010]

Near-frontal view of a male Graceful Prinia in breeding plumage
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, January 2010]

Near-lateral view of a male Graceful Prinia in breeding plumage looking down at the photographer
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, January 2010]

Partly obscured near-lateral view of a singing male Graceful Prinia in breeding plumage; note the black inside of the bill
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, January 2010]

Lateral view of a male Graceful Prinia in breeding plumage
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, January 2010]

Close-up lateral view of a male Graceful Prinia in breeding plumage
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, January 2010]

Near-dorsal view of a male Graceful Prinia in breeding plumage
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, January 2010]

NON-BREEDING

The birds shown below, and labeled as a male in eclipse, were sexed by us by its behaviour, not by their external appearance.

MALE

Frontal view of a male(?) Graceful Prinia
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, November 2009]

Near-lateral view of a male(?) Graceful Prinia in breeding plumage looking towards the observer; note the pale bill
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, October 2009]

FEMALE

The bird shown below, and labeled as a female, was sexed by us by its behaviour, not by its external appearance. It was seen together with the male in eclipse in the frontal view shown above.

Lateral view of a preening female(?) Graceful Prinia
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, November 2009]

Lateral view of a Graceful Prinia shaking itself after preening
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, November 2009]

Sex unknown

Frontal view of a Graceful Prinia leaning sideways
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, November 2009]

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