Shortwing (bird)

The shortwings are colourful medium-sized mostly insectivorous

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Brachypteryx ''Brachypteryx'' is a genus of passerine birds containing six species known as shortwings, that occurs in southeast Asia. Shortwings are small birds with long legs, finely pointed bills, short tails and short rounded wings. They are shy elusiv ...

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Turdidae The thrushes are a passerine bird family, Turdidae, with a worldwide distribution. The family was once much larger before biologists reclassified the former subfamily Saxicolinae, which includes the chats and European robins, as Old World flyca ...

, although some taxonomists place them in the Old World Flycatcher 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 ...

. They show strong sexual plumage dimorphism. All are southeast Asian species. Most shortwings are place in the genus ''

''. * Rusty-bellied shortwing, ''Brachypteryx hyperythra'' * Lesser shortwing, ''Brachypteryx leucophrys'' * White-browed shortwing, ''Brachypteryx montana'' Three other species, formerly placed in Brachypteryx, are now in two other genera. * Great shortwing, ''Heinrichia calligyna'' *

Nilgiri blue robin The Nilgiri blue robin (''Sholicola major''), also known as Nilgiri shortwing, white-bellied shortwing, Nilgiri sholakili or rufous-bellied shortwing is a species of passerine bird in the family Muscicapidae endemic to the Shola forests of the h ...

(also known at Nilgiri shortwing), ''Myiomela major'' * Gould's shortwing, ''Heteroxenicus stellata'' {{Animal common name Turdidae Birds by common name