Kozlov's accentor (''Prunella koslowi'') or the Mongolian accentor, 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 lightweig ...

in the family

Prunellidae The accentors are a genus of birds in the family Prunellidae, which is endemic to the Old World. This small group of closely related passerines are all in the genus ''Prunella''. All but the dunnock and the Japanese accentor are inhabitants of th ...

. It is found in

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

and northern China. The specific epithet was chosen to honour the Russian explorer

Pyotr Kozlov Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (russian: Пётр Кузьми́ч Козло́в; 3 October 1863 in Dukhovshchina – 26 September 1935 in Peterhof) was a Russian and Soviet traveller and explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in ...

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Xeno-canto: audio recordings of Kozlov's accentor

Kozlov's accentor Kozlov's accentor (''Prunella koslowi'') or the Mongolian accentor, is a species of bird in the family Prunellidae. It is found in Mongolia and northern China. The specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming sy ...

Birds of Mongolia Birds of North China

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