Rufous-breasted Accentor (Prunella strophiata)
About the Rufous-breasted Accentor
The rufous-breasted accentor (Prunella strophiata) is passerine bird in the family Prunellidae, endemic to the Himalayas, descending in the winter to lower-to-middle altitudes. It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, Tibet, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Its natural habitat is temperate forest. The rufous-breasted accentor was described by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1843 from a specimen collected in Nepal. He coined the binomial name Accentor strophiatus. The specific epithet strophiatus/strophiata is from Latin strophium "breast-band". The rufous-breasted accentor is now placed in the genus Prunella that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1816. Two subspecies are recognised: P. s. jerdoni (Brooks, WE, 1872) – east Afghanistan and west Himalayas
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Listed as recorded in China, India in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Alpine AccentorPrunella collarisrecording
- Brown AccentorPrunella fulvescensrecording
- DunnockPrunella modularisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.