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竹雞

Bambusicola thoracicus sonorivox

Habitat:

Near Dream Lake, Yangmingshan National Park.

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Chinese Bamboo Partridge - female
Bambusicola thoracicus Chinese bamboo partridge


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2 Comments

JoshuaGSmith
JoshuaGSmith 9 years ago

Cool!

CJWhitmill
CJWhitmill 9 years ago

To add to the previous comment, the bird pictured belongs to the subspecies Bambusicola thoracicus sonorivox, which is endemic to Taiwan. A recent paper argues that this subspecies should be elevated to full species status (with the name Bambusicola sonorivox). The Abstract of the paper can be viewed here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...

mwhitney
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mwhitney

Taiwan

Spotted on Jan 28, 2015
Submitted on Jan 28, 2015

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