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Context: New species from Arunachal added to India’s bird list.

More about news:

• BNHS team spotted the three-banded rosefinch at an altitude higher than its recorded perch in China.
• A bird spotted in Arunachal Pradesh at an altitude higher than its recorded perch in adjoining China has become the 1,340th species of the bird family in India.

About Rosefinch:

• The three-banded rosefinch is a resident of southern China and a vagrant in Bhutan.
• The new species of bird was found during an intensive survey of finches across the Eastern Himalayas as a part of an ongoing study.
• The survey team members spotted the three-banded rosefinch with a flock of white-browed rosefinch, a species commonly seen in this landscape.
• The altitudinal record of the sighting of this species from India is higher than its previous known altitudinal record from China. This has opened up interesting ecological research on this species.
• The three-banded rosefinch belongs to the family Fringillidae, which are seed-eating passerine birds with a distinctively conical bill.
• Little information is available on the ecology of this species.
• IUCN status: Least Concern.

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/new-species-from-arunachal-added-to-indias-bird-list/article34276153.ece?homepage=true

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