Orange Minivet

Brightly-colored forest bird with a long tail. Male is decked out in black and orange-red, female in gray and yellow. Male lacks Small Minivet’s contrasting gray crown and back. Gives very high, somewhat bubbling twitter of “weeeep” notes. Travels in flocks, sometimes mixed in with other species. Often seen in bounding flight over the forest canopy.

The orange minivet in Sri Lanka lives in tropical lowland forests, moist montane forests, and temperate forests. It can be found along the west coast of Sri Lanka and in the Western Ghats of India.

The orange minivet's diet in Sri Lanka consists mainly of insects, including caterpillars, grasshoppers, crickets, cicadas, and spiders. They also sometimes eat flower nectar.