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The sunbirds and spiderhunters make up a family, Nectariniidae, of passerine birds. They are small, slender passerines from Old World, with long, usually decurved bill and some species with...

The blue-winged minla (Minla cyanouroptera/蓝翅希鹛), also known as the blue-winged siva, is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. It has in the past been placed in the...

The scarlet minivet (Pericrocotus speciosus/赤红山椒鸟) is a small passerine bird. This minivet is found in tropical southern Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to southern China, Indonesia, and the...

The coppersmith barbet, crimson-breasted barbet or coppersmith (Megalaima haemacephala/赤胸拟啄木鸟), is a bird with crimson forehead and throat which is best known for its metronomic call that has been likened...

The bronzed drongo (Dicrurus aeneus/古铜色卷尾) is a small Indomalayan bird belonging to the drongo group. They are resident in the forests of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. They...

The mountain hawk-eagle or Hodgson’s hawk-eagle (Nisaetus nipalensis, earlier treated under Spizaetus/鹰雕) is a bird of prey. Like all eagles, it is in the family Accipitridae. It breeds in...

The Richard’s pipit (Anthus richardi/田鹨) is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in northern Asia. It is a long-distance migrant moving to open lowlands in the...

The yellow-bellied prinia (Prinia flaviventris/黄腹鹪莺) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent and much of Southeast Asia. It ranges across...

The fire-tailed sunbird (Aethopyga ignicauda/火尾太阳鸟) is a species of sunbird in the Nectariniidae family.It is found in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, primarily in the Himalayas, and...

The blue-fronted redstart (Phoenicurus frontalis/蓝额红尾鸲) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae, the Old World flycatchers. Its range includes the northern regions of the Indian Subcontinent and...

The ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea/赤麻鸭) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae. Distribution There are very small resident...

The Himalayan vulture or Himalayan griffon vulture (Gyps himalayensis/高山兀鹫) is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae. Closely related to the European griffon vulture (G. fulvus) and once...