The Burmese prinia (''Prinia cooki'') is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family

Cisticolidae The family Cisticolidae is a group of about 160 warblers, small passerine birds found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World. They were formerly included within the Old World warbler family Sylviidae. This family probably originated ...

. It and the

Annam prinia The Annam prinia (''Prinia rocki'') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It and the Burmese prinia (''P. cooki'') were formerly lumped with Deignan's prinia (''P. polychroa'') as the brown prinia. It is found in the Đà Lạt Plat ...

(''P. rocki'') were formerly lumped with Deignan's prinia (''P. polychroa'') as the brown prinia. It is found in

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, where it is distributed from central

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

west to the western edge of

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and

Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

, and north to the southern

Yunnan Province Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...

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. It is

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and has no known subspecies. It was split from ''P. rocki'' and ''P. polychroa'' following a phylogenetic study published in 2019.

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Burmese prinia The Burmese prinia (''Prinia cooki'') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It and the Annam prinia (''P. rocki'') were formerly lumped with Deignan's prinia (''P. polychroa'') as the brown prinia. It is found in Southeast Asia, wher ...

Birds of Myanmar Birds of Yunnan

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