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4-myzornis

This image accompanies this science story written by GrrlScientist and published on The Guardian.

 

Fire-tailed Myzornis, Myzornis pyrrhoura, a monotypic species that was recently (2009) placed into the Old World warbler family Sylviidae. This Asian species lives in moist subtropical or tropical montane forests in the Himalayas.

 

Image: Price T.D., Hooper D.M., Buchanan C.D., Johansson U.S., Tietze D.T., Alström P., Olsson U., Ghosh-Harihar M., Ishtiaq F. & Gupta S.K. & (2014). Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature13272.

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Uploaded on May 6, 2014
Taken on February 12, 2009