Tickell's Leaf Warbler

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Tickell's Leaf Warbler
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Phylloscopidae
Genus: Phylloscopus
Species: P. affinis
Binomial name
Phylloscopus affinis
(Tickell, 1833)

Tickell's Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus affinis) is a leaf warbler found in Asia. The species has a yellowish underside and supercilium. It is a common bird watchers' target in this region.

The name commemorates the British ornithologist Samuel Tickell who collected in India and Burma.[2]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Phylloscopus affinis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013. 
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 338–339. 

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