Pin-tailed Parrotfinch

Pin-tailed Parrotfinch

Taxobox
name = Pin-tailed Parrotfinch



status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Estrildidae
genus = "Erythrura"
species = "E. prasina"
binomial = "Erythrura prasina"
binomial_authority = (Sparrman, 1788)

The Pin-tailed Parrotfinch "Erythrura prasina" is a common species of estrildid finch found in Southeast Asia: Malaysia, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Burma, and Thailand. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km². [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8684&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet] ]

It is found in subtropical/ tropical in both montane and lowland moist forest. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

On August 2, 2007 scientists on an expedition to the upper ranges of Mount Mantalingahan in southern Palawan province in the Philippines announced the discovery, with other animals, of the Pin-tailed parrot finch, according to Dr. Lawrence Heaney, a biologist from the Chicago Field Museum. [ [http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view_article.php?article_id=80317 Scientists discover new species in Palawan] ]

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