Alpine accentor Alpine accentor The alpine accentor ("Prunella collaris") is a small passerine bird. The word "accentor" is from post-classical Latin and means a person who sings with another. The genus name "Prunella" is from the German "Braunelle", "dunnock", a diminutive of "braun", "brown", and the specific "collaris" is from Latin "collum", "neck". This species, along with the Altai accentor is sometimes separated from the other accentors, into the genus "Laiscopus". This is a robin-sized bird at 15-17.5 cm in length, slightly larger than its relative, the dunnock. It has a streaked brown back, somewhat resembling a house sparrow, but adults have
Wallis Bird Festival, Frequency Festival, Rock En Seine, Lowlands and Pukkelpop. In January 2011, Bird toured with Anaïs Mitchell's performance of her album "Hadestown", providing opening support whilst also taking part in the main production of the show. In November 2011, Bird released a special limited edition sole acoustic album (limited to 1000 copies) called "The Mistakes are Intentional". Bird recorded the solo versions in her home in London during the summer of 2011. The CD is packaged in a wallet which has been hand-stitched by Bird herself. Bird made the album in anticipation of the release of her third album. Bird