Silver-eared Mesia
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| Silver-eared Mesia | |
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| male (red rump) | |
| female (orange rump) | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Timaliidae |
| Genus: | Leiothrix |
| Species: | L. argentauris |
| Binomial name | |
| Leiothrix argentauris (Hodgson, 1837) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Mesia argentauris |
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The Silver-eared Mesia (Leiothrix argentauris) is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Phillipps, Reginald (1903). "The silver-eared mesia Mesia argentauris". Avicultural Magazine 1 (12): 379–390. http://www.archive.org/stream/aviculturalmagaz01avic#page/379/mode/1up.
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Leiothrix argentauris |
- BirdLife International 2004. Leiothrix argentauris. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 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.
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