Swinhoe's minivet or the brown-rumped minivet (Pericrocotus cantonensis) is a bird in the cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1861.
| Swinhoe's minivet | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Campephagidae |
| Genus: | Pericrocotus |
| Species: | P. cantonensis
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| Pericrocotus cantonensis R. Swinhoe, 1861
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It breeds in China and winters in Mainland Southeast Asia. Its natural habitats are temperate forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Pericrocotus cantonensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22706731A94086048. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706731A94086048.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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