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Prunellidae
a family of birds of the order Passeriformes. The body is up to 16.7 cm. long. The adult plumage is greyish or reddish, and the young are speckled. There are 12 species, found throughout Europe and Asia, as far south as the Himalayas. In the USSR there are seven species, among them the alpine accentor (Laiscopus collaris), hedge sparrow (Prunella modularis}, and blackthroated accentor (P. atrogularis). They live in cliffs and in meadows in the alpine belt of mountains, and some species inhabit forests. In winter they migrate from the mountains to the valleys and from the northern to the southern parts of the areas they inhabit. They build nests in bushes, on the ground, or among rocks. They feed on the ground on insects, spiders, and small mollusks and in the autumn and winter on seeds. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Last week's predictions weren't too bad as I managed to see nutcracker, snowfinch, alpine accentor and alpine chough in the hills whilst the valleys held red-backed shrike, firecrest, marsh and crested tit, and serin among others. Another bird that has a name list of mistle-thrush proportions is the contrastingly inconspicuous hedge-sparrow (thirty-five plus), alias blue Isaac and haysucker, that pons asinorum of the ornithologically correct, who call it a dunnock because it's a thin-billed insect-eating accentor (Prunella modularis) and not a sparrow at all. The most emblematic bird of the Sierra is the alpine accentor, a small bird common to alpine areas--only outnumbered here by the bounteous array of butterflies that flit through the air in colorful clouds of blue and brown. |
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