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<p>The <strong>parrotbills</strong> are a group of peculiar birds native to East and Southeast Asia, though feral populations are known from elsewhere. They are generally small, long-tailed birds which inhabit reedbeds and similar habitat. They feed mainly on seeds, e.g. of grasses, to which their bill, as the name implies, is well-adapted. Living in tropical to southern temperate climates, they are usually non-migratory.</p>

<p>The Bearded Reedling or &quot;Bearded Tit&quot;, an Eurasian species long placed here, is more insectivorous by comparison, especially in summer. It also strikingly differs in morphology, and was time and again placed in a monotypic family Panuridae. DNA sequence data supports this.</p>

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As names like &quot;Bearded Tit&quot; imply, their general habitus and acrobatic habits resemble birds like the Long-tailed tits. Together with these and others they were at some time placed in the titmouse family Paridae. Later studies found no justification to presume a close relationship between all these birds, and consequently the parrotbills and Bearded Reedling were removed from the tits and chickadees and placed into a distinct family, <strong>Paradoxornithidae</strong>. As names like <em>Paradoxornis paradoxus</em> - &quot;puzzling, paradox bird&quot; - suggest, their true relationships were very unclear, although by the latter 20th century they were generally seen as close to Timaliidae (&quot;Old World babblers&quot;) and Sylviidae (&quot;Old World warblers&quot;).</p>

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