Blackthroat
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The blackthroat (Calliope obscura), also known as the black-throated robin or black-throated blue robin, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It breeds in north-central China but its wintering grounds are uncertain. It has been recorded as a vagrant in northwest Thailand. Its natural habitat is bamboo thickets within coniferous forest at altitudes of 3000–3,400 metres. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Blackthroat is indexed among the 16,386 entries in Vinony's Vulnerable Species collection.
Within Vinony's link graph, Blackthroat is referenced by 15 other articles, and connects out to binomial nomenclature, Muscicapidae and Valentin Lvovich Bianchi.
It sits within the topics Birds described in 1891, Birds of Central China and Calliope (genus).
Its subject is documented across 23 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Vulnerablevia IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- litter size
- 4
- taxon name
- Calliope obscura
- taxon rank
- species
- taxon common name
- pisco-de-garganta-preta
- egg incubation period
- 12
- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- Commons category
- Calliope obscura
- taxon author citation
- (Berezowsky & Bianchi, 1891)
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The blackthroat (Calliope obscura), also known as the black-throated robin or black-throated blue robin, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It breeds in north-central China but its wintering grounds are uncertain. It has been recorded as a vagrant in northwest Thailand. Its natural habitat is bamboo thickets within coniferous forest at altitudes of 3000–3,400 metres. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The species was discovered in 1891, but for the next 120 years only a handful of individuals were seen and to date no female has been conclusively identified. So little was known of it that it earned the title " Asia's most enigmatic robin".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blackthroat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.