The Long-tailed Wren-babbler or Naga Wren-babbler (Spelaeornis chocolatinus) is a bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Timaliidae.
Several former subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...

 of this bird have now been recognized as good species. They are: Pale-throated Wren-babbler

Pale-throated Wren-babbler

The Pale-throated Wren-babbler is a bird species in the family Timaliidae. It was until recently considered a subspecies of the Long-tailed Wren-babbler ; the IUCN for example started recognizing it as distinct species in 2008.Its natural habitat are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests...

 (S. kinneari), Chin Hills Wren-babbler

Chin Hills Wren-babbler

The Chin Hills Wren-babbler is a bird species in the family Timaliidae. It was until recently considered a subspecies of the Long-tailed Wren-babbler ; the IUCN for example started recognizing it as distinct species in 2008.Its natural habitat are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests...

 (S. oatesi) and Grey-bellied Wren-babbler

Grey-bellied Wren-babbler

The Grey-bellied Wren-babbler is a bird species in the family Timaliidae. It was until recently considered a subspecies of the Long-tailed Wren-babbler ; the IUCN for example started recognizing it as distinct species in 2008.Its natural habitat are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests...

 (S. reptatus).

The natural habitat

Habitat

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 of the Long-tailed Wren-babbler are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Following the splitting of the newly-recognized species, the populations remaining in S. chocolatinus are small enough to warrant uplisting to Near Threatened

Near Threatened

Near Threatened is a conservation status assigned to species or lower taxa that may be considered threatened with extinction in the near future, although it does not currently qualify for the threatened status...

 status, from the previous IUCN assessment of Least Concern

Least Concern

Least Concern is an IUCN category assigned to extant taxon or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category. As such they do not qualify as threatened, Near Threatened, or Conservation Dependent...

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