Rufous-headed parrotbill

Rufous-headed parrotbill
in Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China.
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Paradoxornithidae
Genus:	Paradoxornis
Species:	P. bakeri
Binomial name
Paradoxornis bakeri (Hartert, 1900)
Synonyms
Psittiparus bakeri

The rufous-headed parrotbill (Paradoxornis bakeri), or greater rufous-headed parrotbill, is a parrotbill in the family Paradoxornithidae and is found in eastern Asia from the eastern Himalayas to Indochina.

Taxonomy and systematics

The rufous-headed parrotbill was alternatively considered as a member of the Old World babblers family, Timaliidae, or in the Sylviidae, but it actually seems to belong to the distinct family Paradoxornithidae. ^[2] It was formerly considered as conspecific with the white-breasted parrotbill.

Distribution and habitat

The natural habitats of the rufous-headed parrotbill are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

References

1. BirdLife International. (2024). "Paradoxornis bakeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2024: e.T22735612A264210558. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22735612A264210558.en . Retrieved 12 June 2025.
2. "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes – IOC World Bird List" . Retrieved 2022-06-04.

• Robson, C. (2007). Family Paradoxornithidae (Parrotbills) pp. 292 – 321 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World , Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.