Altai accentor

Altai accentor
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Prunellidae
Genus:	Prunella
Species:	P. himalayana
Binomial name
Prunella himalayana (Blyth, 1842)
Synonyms
Laiscopus himalayanus

The Altai accentor (Prunella himalayana) is a species of bird in the family Prunellidae. It is also known as the rufous-streaked accentor or Himalayan accentor. It breeds in the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia; it winters in the southern Tian Shan and Himalayan ranges.

Taxonomy

The Altai accentor was described by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1842 and given the binomial name Accentor himalayanus.[2] The Altai accentor is now placed in the genus Prunella that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.[3] The species is monotypic.[4]

This species, along with the alpine accentor, is sometimes separated from the other accentors into the genus Laiscopus.[5]

Gallery

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  Altai accentor in Pangot
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  Flock of Altai accentor in flight. From Pangot, Uttarakhand, India
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  highly camouflaged when on ground at Gnathang Valley, Sikkim, India
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  Taken at Gnathang, Sikkim, India
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  Painting by John Gould

References

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Prunella himalayana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22718620A132118459. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22718620A132118459.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Blyth, Edward (1842). "Notes on various Indian and Malayan birds, with descriptions of some presumed new species". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 11 (121): 160–195 [187].
3. Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 43.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
5. HBW volume 10, page 496

External links

• Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the Altai accentor