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Brown-winged whistling thrush, the Glossary

The brown-winged whistling thrush (Myophonus castaneus), also known as the Sumatran whistling thrush or chestnut-winged whistling thrush, is a passerine bird belonging to the whistling thrush genus Myophonus in the family Muscicapidae.^[1]

Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bornean whistling thrush

The Bornean whistling thrush (Myophonus borneensis) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. Brown-winged whistling thrush and Bornean whistling thrush are Myophonus.

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Deforestation

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Javan whistling thrush

The Javan whistling thrush (Myophonus glaucinus) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. Brown-winged whistling thrush and Javan whistling thrush are Myophonus.

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Lumpers and splitters

Lumpers and splitters are opposing factions in any discipline that has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories.

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Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes (from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay

Colonel Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay FLS, FZS (25 January 1852 – 22 April 1921) was an army officer and naturalist.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.

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Whistling thrush

The whistling thrushes comprise a genus Myophonus of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. Brown-winged whistling thrush and whistling thrush are Myophonus.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-winged_whistling_thrush

Also known as Brown-winged Whistling Thrush., Brown-winged Whistling-thrush, Brown-winged Whistling-thrush., Chestnut-winged Whistling Thrush, Chestnut-winged Whistling-Thrush, Myophonus castaneus, Myophonus glaucinus castaneus, Sumatran Whistling Thrush, Sumatran Whistling-Thrush.