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Stubtail
''Urosphena'' is a genus of Old World warblers in the family Cettiidae, formerly classified in the family Sylviidae. The genus was erected by Robert Swinhoe in 1877. These warblers are generally brown on the upper parts and lighter in color below with a brown, gray, or yellowish wash. They are similar to genus ''Cettia ''Cettia'' is a genus of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers") which make up the core of the newly recognized family Cettiidae. They were formerly placed in the Sylviidae, which at that time was a wastebin taxon for the warbler-like Sylvioid ...'' but have shorter tails.Alström, P. et al. (2011)"Non-monophyly and intricate morphological evolution within the avian family Cettiidae revealed by multilocus analysis of a taxonomically densely sampled dataset" ''BMC Evolutionary Biology''. 11: 352. Species References Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cettiidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bornean Stubtail
The Bornean stubtail (''Urosphena whiteheadi'') is a species of bird in the cettiid warbler family Cettiidae. It is endemic to the island of Borneo, where it inhabits forest floors and undergrowth in montane forests at elevations of . It is a small, short-tailed warbler, measuring in length and having an average mass of . The tops of the head and the are brown, with whitish that turn grey at the sides of the breast and the . The (stripe above the eye) is long and buffish-brown, with an equally long dark grey (stripe through the eye) and a thin yellow eye-ring. Both sexes are similar. The species feeds on invertebrates, especially green aphids, foraging in a mouse-like manner on the ground and in undergrowth. Nests are made out of reddish plant fibres, with incubation taking 24 days on average. It is classified as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due to its sufficiently large range and stable population. Taxonomy and systematics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cettiidae
Cettiidae is a newly validated family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" assemblage. It contains the typical bush warblers (''Cettia'') and their relatives. As a common name, cettiid warblers is usually used. Some taxonomic authorities include this entire family, as D. Winkler et al. in an enlarged family Scotocercidae. Its members occur mainly in Asia ranging into Oceania and Europe. The pseudo-tailorbirds, tesias and stubtails, as well as ''Tickellia'' and ''Abroscopus'' warblers are mostly found in the forests of south and southeastern Asia, with one species reaching as far north as Japan and Siberia. Only one species, Neumann's warbler (''Hemitesia neumanni''), occurs in Africa. The genus ''Cettia'' has the widest distribution of the family, reaching from Western Europe across Asia to the Pacific islands of Fiji and Palau. Most of the species in the family are sedentary, but the Asian stubtail is wholly migra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Stubtail
The Asian stubtail (''Urosphena squameiceps'') is a bird in the family Cettiidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1863. It breeds in Korea, Manchuria and Japan and winters to southern China and northern Southeast Asia. Its natural habitat is temperate forest A temperate forest is a forest found between the tropical and boreal regions, located in the temperate zone. It is the second largest biome on our planet, covering 25% of the world's forest area, only behind the boreal forest, which covers abou .... Description It is a small bird with a short tail. Males and females are similar in color, as well as juveniles after fledging; they are brown all over with a paler underpart and a darker brown crest and eyeline. Distribution and habitat Breeding Asian stubtails reside in portions of northeastern Asia; non-breeding in parts of southeast Asia including Taiwan, southeastern China, Nepal and Philippines, preferring a habitat of undergrowth in evergree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urosphena Squameiceps
The Asian stubtail (''Urosphena squameiceps'') is a bird in the family Cettiidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1863. It breeds in Korea, Manchuria and Japan and winters to southern China and northern Southeast Asia. Its natural habitat is temperate forest. Description It is a small bird with a short tail. Males and females are similar in color, as well as juveniles after fledging; they are brown all over with a paler underpart and a darker brown crest and eyeline. Distribution and habitat Breeding Asian stubtails reside in portions of northeastern Asia; non-breeding in parts of southeast Asia including Taiwan, southeastern China, Nepal and Philippines, preferring a habitat of undergrowth in evergreen broadleaf or lowland coniferous forest. Behavior Voice Breeding males produce a high-pitched ''shee-shee-shee-shee'' or ''cee-cee-cee'', while both males and females make a call similar to ''chott-chott-chott''. References Asian stubtail Asian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old World Warbler
Old World warblers are a large group of birds formerly grouped together in the bird family Sylviidae. The family held over 400 species in over 70 genera, and were the source of much taxonomic confusion. Two families were split out initially, the cisticolas into Cisticolidae and the kinglets into Regulidae. In the past ten years they have been the subject of much research and many species are now placed into other families, including the Acrocephalidae, Cettiidae, Phylloscopidae, and Megaluridae. In addition some species have been moved into existing families or have not yet had their placement fully resolved. A smaller family of warblers, together with some babblers formerly placed in the family Timaliidae and the parrotbills, are retained in a much smaller family Sylviidae. Characteristics Most Old World warblers are of generally undistinguished appearance, though some Asian species are boldly marked. The sexes are often identical, but may be clearly distinct, notably in the ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timor Stubtail
The Timor stubtail (''Urosphena subulata'') is a species of bird in the family Cettiidae. It is found on Timor and northern and eastern adjacent islands. References Timor stubtail Birds of Timor Timor stubtail The Timor stubtail (''Urosphena subulata'') is a species of bird in the family Cettiidae. It is found on Timor Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is divided between ... Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cettiidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urosphena
''Urosphena'' is a genus of Old World warblers in the family Cettiidae, formerly classified in the family Sylviidae. The genus was erected by Robert Swinhoe in 1877. These warblers are generally brown on the upper parts and lighter in color below with a brown, gray, or yellowish wash. They are similar to genus ''Cettia ''Cettia'' is a genus of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers") which make up the core of the newly recognized family Cettiidae. They were formerly placed in the Sylviidae, which at that time was a wastebin taxon for the warbler-like Sylvioid ...'' but have shorter tails.Alström, P. et al. (2011)"Non-monophyly and intricate morphological evolution within the avian family Cettiidae revealed by multilocus analysis of a taxonomically densely sampled dataset" ''BMC Evolutionary Biology''. 11: 352. Species References Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cettiidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Swinhoe
Robert Swinhoe FRS (1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877) was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Formosa. He catalogued many Southeast Asian birds, and several, such as Swinhoe's pheasant, are named after him. Biography Swinhoe was born in Calcutta where his father, who came from a Northumberland family, was a lawyer. There is no clear record of the date of his arrival in England, but it is known he attended the University of London, and in 1854 joined the China consular corps. He was stationed to the remote port of Amoy, some 300 miles to the northeast of Hong Kong, in 1855. While at this port he not only mastered the Chinese language (both official Mandarin and the local Amoy dialect), but also initiated a detailed and authoritative understanding of the ornithology of eastern China. In March, 1856, Swinhoe made an "adventurous" visit to the camphor districts of northwestern Formosa on board a lorcha, a hybrid vessel utilizing a European hull an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylviidae
Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that includes the typical warblers and a number of babblers formerly placed within the Old World babbler family. They are found in Eurasia and Africa. Taxonomy and systematics The scientific name Sylviidae was introduced by the English zoologist William Elford Leach (as Sylviadæ) in a guide to the contents of the British Museum published in 1820. The family became part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers and was a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. Advances in classification, particularly helped with molecular data, have led to the splitting out of several new families from within this group. There is now evidence that these ''Sylvia'' "warblers" are more closely related to the Old World babblers than the warblers and thus these birds are better referred to as Sylvia babblers, or just sylviids. A molecular phylogenetic study using mitochondrial DNA sequence data published in 2011 found that the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cettia
''Cettia'' is a genus of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers") which make up the core of the newly recognized family Cettiidae. They were formerly placed in the Sylviidae, which at that time was a wastebin taxon for the warbler-like Sylvioidea. The range of this genus extends from Europe to southeast Asia. The genus gets its name from the Cetti's warbler, itself named after the 18th century Italian zoologist Francesco Cetti. The cettiid or typical bush warblers share the lifestyle and related adaptations and apomorphies with ''Bradypterus'', the other genus called bush warblers. However, ''Bradypterus'' is related to the grass warblers of '' Locustella'' and '' Megalurus'' and is more distant from ''Cettia''. Both "bush warbler" genera are smallish birds well adapted to climbing among shrubbery. They are markedly long-tailed birds, at first glance somewhat reminiscent of wrens. These are quite terrestrial birds, which live in densely vegetated habitats such as thick forest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pale-footed Bush Warbler
The pale-footed bush warbler (''Hemitesia pallidipes'') is a species of oriental warbler in the family (biology), family Cettiidae that is found in southern Asia. It occurs in the Himalayan region west from Dehradun through the foothills of Nepal to northeastern India. It also occurs in Myanmar, Laos, northern Vietnam and southern China. A single sighting was recorded from Kandy, Sri Lanka in March 1993. Taxonomy The pale-footed bush warbler was species description, formally described in 1872 by the English naturalist William Thomas Blanford, William Blandford under the binomial name ''Phylloscopus pallidipes''. The specific epithet ''pallidipes'' combines the Latin ''pallidus'' meaning "pale" with ''pes'' meaning "foot". This warbler in now placed in the genus ''Hemitesia'' that was introduced by James Chapin in 1948. Three subspecies are recognised: * ''H. p. pallidipes'' (William Thomas Blanford, Blanford, 1872) – Himalayas to west Yunnan (south China) and north Myanmar * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neumann's Warbler
Neumann's warbler (''Hemitesia neumanni'') or Neumann's short-tailed warbler, is a species of bird in the family Cettiidae. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. Taxonomy Neumann's warbler was formally described in 1908 by the English zoologist Water Rothschild from specimens collected in a forested area west of Lake Tanganyika. He proposed the binomial name ''Sylvietta neumanni''. Neumann's warbler is now placed with the pale-footed bush warbler in the genus ''Hemitesia'' that was introduced in 1948 by James Chaplin. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ''hēmi-'' meaning "half-" or "small" with the genus '' Teslia'' that had been introduced by Brian Hodgson in 1837. The specific epithet ''neumanni'' was chosen to honour the German ornithologist Oscar Neumann. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. Neumann's warbler is the only species in the family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
