Grey-crowned Prinia

The grey-crowned prinia is a small, neatly proportioned, relatively short-tailed prinia 11 cm long and 6–8.5 g, with a small, slim bill. In fresh plumage it has a rufous forehead, and in the breeding season blue-grey ear coverts and no eyebrow. It can be difficult to distinguish from other prinias. It is found in Bhutan, northern India and Nepal, and threatened by habitat loss, including forest fires (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, moist shrubland, dry lowland grassland, seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and arable land. SoIB 2023 treats it as endemic to the Indian subcontinent and rates it a High conservation priority, a resident of grassland and scrub with a Very Restricted range of about 4,920 km² (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).