Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris)
About the Alpine Accentor
The alpine accentor (Prunella collaris) is a small passerine bird in the family Prunellidae, which is native to Eurasia and North Africa. The Alpine accentor was described by the Italian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1769. He coined the binomial name Sturnus collaris and specified the type locality as the Carinthia region of southern Austria. The specific epithet is from the Latin collaris "of the neck". This species is now placed in the genus Prunella that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816. The Alpine accentor, along with the Altai accentor is sometimes separated from the other accentors, into the genus Laiscopus.
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1 recording on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Austria, China, France, Georgia, Germany, India and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 263 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Altai AccentorPrunella himalayanaprofile
- Black-throated AccentorPrunella atrogularisprofile
- Brown AccentorPrunella fulvescensrecording
- DunnockPrunella modularisrecording
- Japanese AccentorPrunella rubidaprofile
- Kozlov's AccentorPrunella koslowiprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.