White-breasted parrotbill

The white-breasted parrotbill (Paradoxornis ruficeps) is a bird species often placed with the Old World babblers (family Timaliidae) or in a distinct family Paradoxornithidae, but it actually seems to belong to the Sylviidae.

White-breasted parrotbill
In Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradoxornithidae
Genus: Paradoxornis
Species:
P. ruficeps
Binomial name
Paradoxornis ruficeps
Blyth, 1842
Synonyms

Psittiparus ruficeps

It is found in Eastern Himalaya, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

It was formerly considered conspecific with the rufous-headed parrotbill.

References edit

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Psittiparus ruficeps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T103880882A118620946. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103880882A118620946.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  • Robson, C. (2007). Family Paradoxornithidae (Parrotbills) pp. 292 – 321 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.