Yory [1] ( lat. Aegithina ) is a genus of passerine birds , the only one in the family of yorov [2] (Aegithinidae) [3] . Earlier, yor belonged to the leaflet family.
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 Black-winged Yora ( Aegithina tiphia ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yors live in forests, orchards, and fruit plantations from South Asia to Southeast Asia . Their size is from 12 to 16 cm. As a rule, they live alone and feed on spiders , insects and other invertebrates . In yor, there is no sexual dimorphism , but during the mating season in males, the plumage acquires a brighter color.
Classification
As of June 2018, 4 species are included in the genus [3] [1] :
- Aegithina lafresnayei (Hartlaub, 1844) - Long-billed Yora
- Aegithina nigrolutea (Marshall, 1876) - Black Caps Yora
- Aegithina tiphia (Linnaeus, 1758) - Black - winged Yora
- Aegithina viridissima (Bonaparte, 1850) - Green Yora
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Russian names are given according to the source: Boehme R. L. , Flint V. Ye. Pentate-linguistic dictionary of animal names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 287. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Glushchenko Yu.N., Koblik E.A., Arkhipov V. Yu., Glushchenko V.P., Eliseev S.L., Korobov D.V., Korobova I.N., Loginov N.G., Malykh I.M., Semenov G.A., Simonov V.A., Khaidarov D.R., Chernyshev O.G. Ornithological observations in Thailand in 2006—2018 // Russian Ornithological Journal. - 2018 .-- T. 27 , no. 1627 . - S. 2962 .
- ↑ 1 2 Bristlehead, butcherbirds, woodswallows, ioras, cuckooshrikes : [ eng. ] / F. Gill & D. Donsker (Eds). // IOC World Bird List (v 8.2). - 2018 .-- DOI : 10.14344 / IOC.ML.8.2 . (Retrieved July 7, 2018) .