Winged beauty jumps onto China's wildlife list
By Chen Liang | China Daily | Updated: 2008-06-19 07:25
It has a white crescent-shaped patch behind the ear and some grayish-brown spots on the white throat. Apart from that, it's dark brown all over.
It prefers to walk, flying only when frightened. It often feeds on worms and insects in the gaps between rocks.
Meet the new species of bird discovered by Chinese ornithologists on a small patch of limestone rainforest on the Sino-Vietnamese border.
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