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small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia

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Multiple mating and cooperative breeding in polygynandrous Alpine Accentors.
The mountain slopes and high woodlands also hold other species which aren't present in the UK, such as citril finch, alpine accentor, black woodpecker and alpine chough.
Recent highlights have included a pair of Slender-billed Gulls from Spain in Norfolk, an Alpine Accentor in Kent and an Alpine Swift in Wales.
Evolutionary aspects of parental behavior: distraction behavior of the Alpine Accentor.
Lambertini said that in Europe and the US the species of emperor penguin was endangered because fish, which was the staple diet of the bird, was disappearing from the sea whereas Yemen thrush, Yemen accentor and northern baid ibis, were also disappearing for frequent droughts, desertification and lack of preys.