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Black-breasted Parrotbill
Paradoxornis flavirostris Gould, 1836
Paradoxornithidae — Parrotbills & Allies
Black-breasted Parrotbill, Paradoxornis flavirostris, is a passerine of the Paradoxornithidae family that breeds in the Himalayas of north-eastern India. It lives in dense reed beds and tall grassland on wet ground in lowland floodplains and nearby grassy forest openings. The bird is mainly brown, with a broad black patch across the upper breast and black on the sides of the head and throat. It is now known from only a few scattered sites in the Brahmaputra valley and adjoining foothills, including Manas, Kaziranga, Loktak, Dibru-Saikhowa, D'Ering and the Lower Dibang Valley.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Paradoxornithidae — Parrotbills & Allies
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: Himalayas, ne India
