Barwing

The barwings are the genus Actinodura of passerine birds in the family Leiothrichidae. They are found in the hills of Southern Asia, from Eastern India to China and Taiwan.

Barwing
Taiwan barwing (Actinodura morrisoniana)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Leiothrichidae
Genus:	Actinodura Gould, 1836
Type species
Actinodura egertoni
Species
See text

Species

The genus contains nine species:^[1]

Genus Actinodura – Nine species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Bar-throated minla	Actinodura strigula (Hodgson, 1837)	central Nepal through India, southern China and Bhutan	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Spectacled barwing	Actinodura ramsayi Walden, 1875	China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Rusty-fronted barwing	Actinodura egertoni Gould, 1836	Southeast Asia from the Himalayas to north-eastern Myanmar.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-winged minla	Actinodura cyanouroptera (Hodgson, 1837)	Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Hoary-throated barwing	Actinodura nipalensis (Hodgson, 1836)	Bhutan, India, Tibet, and Nepal.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-crowned barwing	Actinodura sodangorum (Eames, JC, Trai Trong Le, Nguyen Cu & Eve, 1998)	Laos and Vietnam	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Streaked barwing	Actinodura souliei Oustalet, 1897	China and Vietnam.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Streak-throated barwing	Actinodura waldeni Godwin-Austen, 1874	western Yunnan, southern Tibet, Northeast India and Myanmar.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Taiwan barwing	Actinodura morrisoniana Ogilvie-Grant, 1906	Taiwan.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

1. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

• Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.