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Bearded Reedling[1] Adult male in Kent, England Adult female in
Kent, England Conservation status Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order:
Passeriformes Family: Panuridae Genus: Panurus Koch, 1816
Species: P. biarmicus Binomial name Panurus biarmicus (Linnaeus,
1758)  The Bearded Reedling (Panurus biarmicus) is a small,
sexually dimorphic reed-bed passerine bird. It is frequently
known as the Bearded Tit, due to some similarities to the Long-
tailed Tit, or the Bearded Parrotbill.   The Bearded Reedling
was placed with the parrotbills in the family Paradoxornithidae,
after they were removed from the true tits in the family
Paridae. However, according to more recent research, it is
actually a unique songbird - no other living species seems to be
particularly closely related to it. Thus, it seems that the
monotypic family Panuridae must again be recognized.   Th