About Macronus gularis (Horsfield, 1822)
This bird species, Macronus gularis, has a distinctive yellowish supercilium, a rufous crown, and a yellowish throat marked with brown streaks. Its call is a loud, repeated chonk-chonk-chonk-chonk-chonk, which is somewhat similar to the call of the common tailorbird. It forages in small flocks, creeping and clambering through low vegetation. It breeds during the pre-monsoon season from February to July, and builds loose, ball-shaped nests out of grasses and leaves. The species is widely distributed across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. In India, there are disjunct populations located in southern India and the northern Eastern Ghats. The first record of the southern Indian population was collected by Salim Ali from Antharasanthe near the Kabini reservoir, and no additional records were made from this area after the initial collection. This southern population was later rediscovered in the Masinagudi area of Mudumalai in 2004.
