Passeriformes

Ioras (Aegithinidae)

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• Small, arboreal insectivores with straight, rather long, notch-tipped, pale bill, and minute rictal bristles; plumage combining greens, yellows, black and white, with unusually long flank feathers silky white.
• Oriental Region.
• Thorny acacia savanna to deciduous and evergreen lowland forests, extending to mangroves, secondary growth, plantations and wooded gardens.
• 1 genus, 4 species, 17 taxa.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.