Biology:Yunnan parrotbill

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Short description: Subspecies of bird

Yunnan parrotbill
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradoxornithidae
Genus: Sinosuthora
Species:
S. ricketti
Binomial name
Sinosuthora ricketti
Rothschild, 1922
Synonyms

Paradoxornis brunneus ricketti Sinosuthora brunneus ricketti

The Yunnan parrotbill (Sinosuthora ricketti) is a parrotbill in the Old World babbler family. This 10 cm long parrotbill is endemic to China , breeding in northwest Yunnan.

It was formerly considered conspecific with the brown-winged parrotbill, Sinosuthora brunnea, (sometimes the vinous-throated parrotbill, Sinosuthora webbiana), but more recent revisions have found it to be a distinct species.[1] Its behaviour is described as similar to that of vinous-throated.[2]

References

  • 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.

Wikidata ☰ Q8061335 entry