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The blackthroat (Calliope obscura), also known as the black-throated robin or black-throated blue robin, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It breeds in north-central China but its wintering grounds are uncertain. It has been recorded as a vagrant in northwest Thailand.
The black-throated laughingthrush (Pterorhinus chinensis) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in Cambodia , China, Laos , Myanmar , Thailand , and Vietnam . It occurs as an introduced species in Hong Kong . [ 1 ]
The common blackbird, unlike many black creatures, is not normally seen as a symbol of bad luck, [61] but R. S. Thomas wrote that there is "a suggestion of dark Places about it", [65] and it symbolised resignation in the 17th century tragic play The Duchess of Malfi; [66] an alternate connotation is vigilance, the bird's clear cry warning of ...
The black-throated bushtit is a small passerine, around 10.5 cm long and weighing 4-9 g. [2] There is considerable racial variation in the plumage, but all subspecies have a medium length tail (as opposed to the long tail of the related long-tailed tit), a black throat and a black 'bandit mask' around the eye. The nominate race has a chestnut ...
The black-naped monarch was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. [2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. [3]
The black-throated thrush (Turdus atrogularis) is a passerine bird in the thrush family. It is sometimes regarded as one subspecies of a polytypic species, "dark-throated thrush", red-throated thrush then being the other subspecies. [2] More recent treatments regard the two as separate species. [3]
What is now the northern black-throated trogon was long treated as one of six subspecies of the then "black-throated trogon" (Trogon rufus sensu lato).Starting in 2022, the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS), the International Ornithological Congress, and the Clements taxonomy split the black-throated trogon into four species, one of them being ...
Black-throated trogon was a common name for birds in a species complex, which included birds now known as: Northern black-throated trogon, Trogon tenellus; Choco black-throated trogon, Trogon cupreicauda; Amazonian black-throated trogon, Trogon rufus; Atlantic black-throated trogon, Trogon chrysochloros