The Taiwan bamboo partridge (''Bambusicola sonorivox'') 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
Phasianidae. It is endemic to
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the
Chinese bamboo partridge.
It has several local names known among Taiwan's
indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...
: ''tikulhat'' (
Thao), ''tikulas'' (
Bunun) and ''tikolac'' (
Amis).
References
Taiwan bamboo partridge
Birds of Taiwan
Taiwan bamboo partridge
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