How to Identify Prunellidae

Key Identification Features

• The head features a dark brown crown, a long, wide pale yellow supercilium, a blackish patch behind the eye, and grey sides to the neck.
• The Siberian accentor can still be distinguished by its rustier back colour, yellow rather than off-white supercilium, and the absence of a white line below the black face mask.
• The wings are rusty brown and feature two distinct white wing bars.
• This distinctive wing flicking behaviour led to the old common nickname "shufflewing" for the species.

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