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
Kite (bird) Kite (bird) Kite is a common name for certain birds of prey in the family Accipitridae, particularly in subfamilies Milvinae, Elaninae, and Perninae. Some authors use the terms "hovering kite" and "soaring kite" to distinguish between "Elanus" and the milvine kites, respectively. The groups may also be differentiated by size, referring to milvine kites as "large kites", and elanine kites as "small kites". A few of the traditional Perninae" "are also called kites. In 1824, Vigors proposed five divisions or "stirpes" of the family Falconidae: Aquilina (eagles), Accipitrina (hawks), Falconina (falcons), Buteonina (buzzards) and Milvina (kites, containing two genera "Elanus"