Annam Prinia

The Annam prinia (Prinia rocki) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It and the Burmese prinia (P. cooki) were formerly lumped with Deignan's prinia (P. polychroa) as the brown prinia. It is found in the Đà Lạt Plateau of the Annamite Mountains in a small portion of southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It is monotypic and has no known subspecies. (Wikipedia, general species account).

It was split from P. cooki and P. polychroa following a phylogenetic study published in 2019. This species belongs to a group of small, active songbirds that generally search foliage, stems or ground cover for insects and other small invertebrates. Many are easier to detect by voice than by sight, particularly in dense vegetation, and closely related forms may require calls, season and range for confident identification. These are group-level ecological notes, not Vietnam-specific breeding measurements (general warbler ecology).