The rusty-bellied shortwing (''Brachypteryx hyperythra'') is a species of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class (biology), class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the Oviparity, laying of Eggshell, hard-shelled eggs, a high Metabolism, metabolic rate, a fou ...
in the family
Muscicapidae
The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia), with the exception of several vagrants and two species, bluethroat (''Luscinia svecica'') and north ...
.
It is found in
Yunnan
Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...
,
Northeast India
Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political Administrative divisions of India, administrative division of the country. It comprises eight States and ...
and far northern
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...
.
Its natural
habitat
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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forest
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s, subtropical or tropical moist
montane forest
Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures lapse rate, fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is ...
s, and subtropical or tropical moist
shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominance (ecology), dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbaceous plant, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally o ...
. It is affected by
habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss or habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species. The organisms once living there have either moved elsewhere, or are dead, leading to a decrease ...
. Having turned out to be more common than previously believed, it is downlisted from Vulnerable to Near Threatened in the 2007
IUCN Red List
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.
[See BirdLife International (2007a,b).]
References
* BirdLife International (2007a):
2006-2007 Red List status changes]. Retrieved 2007-AUG-26.
* BirdLife International (2007b)
Rusty-bellied Shortwing - BirdLife Species Factsheet Retrieved 2007-AUG-28.
Further reading
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External links
Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the Rusty-bellied Shortwing
Brachypteryx, rusty-bellied shortwing
Birds of Northeast India
Birds of Yunnan
rusty-bellied shortwing
rusty-bellied shortwing
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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