Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Asian Stubtail
Urosphena squameiceps
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
A walking forest mouse with wings. Almost no tail, almost no song, almost no sighting — and yet there it is, foot-high through the leaf litter.
- Population
- widespread but extremely cryptic; rarely observed
- Habitat
- dense leaf-litter floor of broadleaf forest and bamboo across northeast Asia, wintering south to Taiwan and Southeast Asia
- Diet
- tiny insects, spiders, springtails
- Size
- 0.1 m
- Wingspan
- 0.15 m
