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).

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Taiwan bamboo partridge Birds of Taiwan Taiwan bamboo partridge {{Galliformes-stub