Golden-breasted fulvetta
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| File:Golden-breasted Fulvetta Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary East Sikkim India 20.10.2015.jpg | |
| Pangolakha WLS in East Sikkim, India. | |
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Lioparus
Oates, 1889
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L. chrysotis
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| Lioparus chrysotis Blyth, 1845
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The golden-breasted "fulvetta" (Lioparus chrysotis) is a species of songbird found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
File:Lioparus chrysotis.jpg
Golden-breasted "fulvetta"
Traditionally united with the other "fulvettas" in Alcippe in the Old World babbler family (Timaliidae), it is actually closer to the typical warblers and hence placed in the Sylviidae even in their new, more restricted sense, in a monotypic genus Lioparus.
References
- BirdLife International 2004. Alcippe chrysotis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 25 July 2007.
- Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 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.
External links
- Photo at kolkatabirds.com.
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