Reed Parrotbill
Paradoxornis heudei
Associated closely with the dense reedy vegetation of expansive wetlands, this baby-faced bird has a gray head, smart black eyebrow, and a warm brown body. While possessing the typical stout bill and long tail of most parrotbills, this species also has an exceptionally lanky appearance, unlike most of its stouter, more rotund kin. Gives raspy whistles and trills from the cover of the reeds as it moves through the vegetation in small-to-medium-sized flocks.
识别特征
The reed parrotbill species is known to have significantly short, wide, and deep bills. The reed parrotbill is the only parrotbill to change its appearance based on whether it's in breeding season. In winter, non-breeding season, the reed parrotbill has a pinkish-cream and ash-gray forehead and neck. This species has streaks of black and warm brown from above its eyes to the tip of its head. The region between its eyes and bill is a little whiter than its forehead. The reed parrotbill has a white-tinted stripe that runs from the base of the bird's beak above its eye, and finishes somewhere towards the rear of the bird's head. Its ears are a similar color to its crown, also known as the top of its head. They have different colored streaks on their body which include black and brown. The streaks become blacker the further down the body. In summer, breeding season, the top of the birds head to the feathers in the upper middle of the back below the neck feathers, are a bluish-gray. The lower end of the feathers are more of a dark chestnut. Their ears are slightly paler, and the sides are a lighter chestnut color than they are in non-breeding season.
分类信息
- 学名
- Paradoxornis heudei
- 命名信息
- (David, A, 1872)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Sylviidae
- 属
- Paradoxornis
分布与栖息地
Reed parrotbills are native to East Asia. Their habitat is known as a reedbed, which is a very wet area of reed plants between water and land. Reed parrotbills rely on reedbeds because it is their natural environment that is home to both their water and food. Recently, the population of this species has been declining due to degradation of reedbeds in their environment. This habitat loss has detrimentally affected the population of reed parrotbills. because it's in the Paradoxornithidae family.
- 迁徙
- Resident species
保护状况
The reed parrotbill species is predicted to decline rapidly as a result of degradation of their habitat. They are not threatened globally, it's considered "near threatened". The main threats to their species are associated with clearance of reedbeds and over-harvesting reeds. The population trend is decreasing fast, and there is a continuing decline of mature individuals.
- 种群趋势
- declining
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