Shortwing
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Shortwings
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Aves
| ordo = Passeriformes
| familia = Turdidae
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
Brachypteryx
Heinrichia
}}
The shortwings are colourful medium-sized mostly insectivorous birds in the genera Brachypteryx and Heinrichia of the thrush family Turdidae.
All are southeast Asian species:
- Rusty-bellied Shortwing, Brachypteryx hyperythra
- Gould's Shortwing, Brachypteryx stellata
- White-bellied Shortwing, Brachypteryx major
- Lesser Shortwing, Brachypteryx leucophrys
- White-browed Shortwing, Brachypteryx montana
- Great Shortwing, Heinrichia calligyna