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tailorbird /ˈteɪləbəːd/nounA small southern Asian warbler that makes a row of holes in one or two large leaves and stitches them together with cottony fibres or silk to form a container for the nest.- Genus Orthotomus, family Sylviidae: several species.
Collected here in 1945, the tailorbirds remained ignored until a 2001 expedition revisited the massif....- Some tailorbirds prove to be closely related to cisticolas and prinias, in the family Cisticolidae.
- We had some luck with bad views of a Blue-capped Kingfisher, but a pair of Rufous-headed tailorbirds was well seen.
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