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Accentor
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Accentors
A European and Asian family, with few species, only two in Europe and one in the UK. Accentors are small, inconspicuous, streaked birds, with sharp, pointed bills and a slightly robin-like, pot-bellied form.
Brown Accentor Prunella fulvescens
Described by: Severtsov (1873)
Alternate common name(s): Pale Accentor
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Robin Accentor (Prunella rubeculoides) is a local resident in Himalayas. Size: 17 cm
Anseriformes
Apodiformes
Bucerotiformes
Caprimulgiformes
Charadriiformes
Ciconiiformes
Columbiformes
Coraciiformes
Cuculiformes ...
Accentor, Siberian Prunella montanella Found: Asia
Drawing by: Naumann in Natural history of the birds of central Europe ...
Hedge Accentor
Both Sexes
Streaky grey-brown plumage.
Prunella modularis ...
Accentors, a diacriticality of
Accentor, a host of
Albatrosses, a flight of
Albatrosses, a rookery of
Albatrosses, a weight of
Anis, a cooch of
Anis, a silliness of
Anis, an orphanage of
Auklets (whiskered), a beard of
Auks, a colony of ...
Hedge accentor,
Hedge sparrow,
Hedge warbler
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Family Prunellidae (accentors)
Family Thraupidae (tanagers and relatives)
Family Turdidae (thrushes) ...
OTHER NAMES: Golden-crowned thrush and golden-crowned accentor
DESCRIPTION: The ovenbird is a small member of the warbler family.
pittas, New Zealand wrens, asities, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, fairy bluebirds, shrikes, vanga shrikes, waxwings, palmcat, dippers, wrens, mockingbirds, accentors, thrushes, ...
When I think of the birds of the Alps, the first names that come to mind are Alpine Chough, Bearded Vulture, Snowfinch, Alpine Accentor and - of course - the Wallcreeper.
This bird looks like a female sparrow, the dunnock is one of the small family known as the accentors. This bird will creeping beneath overhanging foliage with a jerky, mouselike shuffle.
SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS, Golden-crowned accentor, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 227.
GOLDEN-CROWNED THRUSH or OVEN-BIRD, Turdus aurocapillus, Nutt. Man.,vol. i. p. 355.
Dunnock (Prunella modularis)
(aka Hedge Accentor, Hedge Sparrow)
Edinburgh, Scotland ...
Accentors (Family Prunellidae)
Wagtails and Pipits (Family Motacillidae)
Waxwings (Family Bombycillidae)
Silky-flycatchers (Family Ptilogonatidae)
Warblers (Family Parulidae)
Tanagers (Family Thraupidae) ...
 See also: Sparrow, Robin, Warbler, Dunnock, Finch
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