Rufous-headed parrotbill

Rufous-headed parrotbill
in Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paradoxornithidae
Genus: Paradoxornis
Species:
P. bakeri
Binomial name
Paradoxornis bakeri
(Hartert, 1900)
Synonyms
  • Psittiparus bakeri

The rufous-headed parrotbill (Paradoxornis bakeri), or greater rufous-headed parrotbill, is a parrotbill in the family Paradoxornithidae and is found in eastern Asia from the eastern Himalayas to Indochina.

Taxonomy and systematics

The rufous-headed parrotbill was alternatively considered as a member of the Old World babblers family, Timaliidae, or in the Sylviidae, but it actually seems to belong to the distinct family Paradoxornithidae.[2] It was formerly considered as conspecific with the white-breasted parrotbill.

Distribution and habitat

The natural habitats of the rufous-headed parrotbill are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Psittiparus bakeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22735612A118619931. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22735612A118619931.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  • 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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