Sikkim wedge-billed babbler

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Sikkim wedge-billed babbler
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Stachyris
Species:
S. humei
Binomial name
Stachyris humei
(Mandelli, 1873)
Synonyms
  • Heterorhynchus humeiprotonym
  • Sphenocichla humei

The Sikkim wedge-billed babbler or blackish-breasted babbler (Stachyris humei) is a species of bird in the Old World babbler family (Timaliidae). It is named for the Indian state of Sikkim.

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It is found in the Indian subcontinent and nearby parts of Southeast Asia. Its range includes Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.[ citation needed ]

Systematics

This species described by Louis Mandelli based on specimens from Sikkim and placed in the genus Heterorhynchus [2] which was however preoccupied leading to it briefly being placed in the genus Stachyrirhynchus by Hume. However the genus Sphenocichla was erected before this by Godwin-Austen and Lord Tweeddale for the Manipur or Cachar wedge-billed babbler and this species was moved to the genus Sphenocichla. [3] [4] Molecular phylogenetic analysis indicated that the species in the genus Sphenocichla were nested amid species of Stachyris leading to them being merged into the older described genus Stachyris. [5]

The species was previously known as the wedge-billed babbler and included Stachyris humei and the now separated Stachyris roberti which was earlier treated as a subspecies. [6]

Ecology

It inhabits the understorey of broadleaf evergreen forest and bamboo at 900–1,950 m, favouring westward facing slopes in Bhutan. It occupies lower elevations only during the winter. It occurs in small parties and feeds on insects, particularly woodlice and boring beetles. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2018). "Stachyris humei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018: e.T22735087A132184950. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22735087A132184950.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Mandelli, L. (1873). "New birds from Sikhim". Stray Feathers. 1: 415–416.
  3. ↑ Gould, John (1883). The birds of Asia. Volume IV. p. plate 55.
  4. ↑ Austen, Godwin; Walden, Arthur Viscount (2008). "Descriptions of some supposed new Species of Birds". Ibis. 17 (2): 250. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1875.tb06156.x.
  5. ↑ Cai, Tianlong; Cibois, Alice; Alström, Per; Moyle, Robert G.; Kennedy, Jonathan D.; Shao, Shimiao; Zhang, Ruiying; Irestedt, Martin; Ericson, Per G.P.; Gelang, Magnus; Qu, Yanhua (2019). "Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world's babblers (Aves: Passeriformes)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 130: 346–356. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.010 . PMID   30321696.
  6. ↑ Rasmussen, P.C. (2005). "Biogeographic and conservation implications of revised species limits and distributions of South Asian birds". Zool. Med. Leiden. 79–3 (13): 137–146.
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