Yunnan parrotbill

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.

Yunnan parrotbill
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradoxornithidae
Genus: Sinosuthora
Species:
S. ricketti
Binomial name
Sinosuthora ricketti
Synonyms

Paradoxornis brunneus ricketti Sinosuthora brunneus ricketti

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

  1. "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  2. "Parrotbills: Paradoxornis or Suthora". 1999. Archived from the original on 2005-09-09.
  • 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.


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