Radde's Accentor
Prunella ocularis
Medium-sized accentor. Very skulking and often shy. Note the off-white eyebrow, lightly streaked neck sides, cold-toned back, and ochre-buff underparts with a paler whitish belly. Breeds in rocky alpine habitats near treeline in bushes and scrub. Song is similar to that of a Black Redstart, a clear whistle and rattle. Call is a high-pitched clear note.
Identification
Radde's accentor (Prunella ocularis) is a species of bird in the family Prunellidae. It is found in mountainous parts of Yemen and northern Southwest Asia. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.
Taxonomy
Radde's accentor was described by the German naturalist Gustav Radde in 1884 from a specimen collected in the Talysh Mountains near the Azerbaijan-Iran border. He coined the binomial name Accentor ocularis. It is now placed in the genus Prunella that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816. The species is monotypic.
- Scientific name
- Prunella ocularis
- Authority
- (Radde, 1884)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Prunellidae
- Genus
- Prunella
Range and habitat
Breeding range: PAL : montane c Turkey e through s Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and s to se Iran; disjunctly far w Yemen. Non-breeding range: to the Levant and ne Arabian Pen..
- Breeding range
- PAL : montane c Turkey e through s Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and s to se Iran; disjunctly far w Yemen
- Non-breeding range
- to the Levant and ne Arabian Pen.
- Migration
- Resident species
Behavior
Migration pattern: Resident species.
Conservation
Population trend: stable.
- Population trend
- stable
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Distribution
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