PUFF-THROATED BABBLER

 

Photographed at Dong Nai Nature Reserve, Vietnam, May 2024.

   1341                   PUFF-THROATED BABBLER                   Pellorneum ruficeps

VIETNAM                    4

The puff-throated babbler or spotted babbler (Pellorneum ruficeps) is a species of passerine bird found in Asia. They are found in scrub and moist forest mainly in hilly regions. They forage in small groups on the forest floor, turning around leaf litter to find their prey and usually staying low in the undergrowth where they can be hard to spot.

BUFF-BREASTED BABBLER

Photographed at Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, April 2017

1177              BUFF-BREASTED BABBLER             Pellorneum tickelli 

MALAYSIA               92

Found in broad-leafed evergreen forest, secondary growth, bamboo, sometimes mixed deciduous forest; up to c. 1,500 m. Common resident throughout most of SE Asia.

PYGMY WREN-BABBLER

Photographed at Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, April 2017

1172            PYGMY WREN-BABBLER                 Pnoepyga pusilla  

MALAYSIA            86

Found in broad-leafed evergreen forest, secondary forest; 500-2,565 m. 7.5-9.5 cm. Common resident in Malaysian Peninsula.

DARK-FRONTED BABBLER

March 2017

1130             DARK-FRONTED BABBLER             Rhopocichla atriceps

SRI LANKA            160

Found skulking in dense undergrowth in forest. 13 cm. Locally uncommon breeding resident throughout Sri Lanka, more common in dry zone.

SRI LANKA SCIMITAR BABBLER

March 2017

1084                SRI LANKA SCIMITAR BABBLER                Pomatorhinus melanrus

SRI LANKA              89

Endemic. Found in forest, well-wooded areas and adjoining scrub and gardens. 22 cm. Uncommon and local throughout the country, but rare in dry lowlands.

ORANGE-BILLED BABBLER

Photographed March 2017

1076                      ORANGE-BILLED BABBLER                Turdoides rufescens 

SRI LANKA                     78

Also known as Ceylon Rufous Babbler. Endemic; found in forests. 25 cm. Locally fairly common, in wet lowlands and adjoining hills.

BROWN-CAPPED BABBLER

Photographed March 2017

1070                 BROWN-CAPPED BABBLER                       Pellorneum fuscocapillus

SRI LANKA                      57

Endemic. Found in undergrowth and thick scrub. 16 cm. Local and fairly common from lowlands to mid hills. Skulker.

YELLOW-BILLED BABBLER

Photographed in Sri Lanka, March 2017

1058                  YELLOW-BILLED BABBLER                     Turdoides affinis 

SRI LANKA             10

Keeps in flocks, mainly on ground; found in forests, wooded areas and trees in villages and town gardens, but avoids forests in wet zones and adjoining hills. 23 cm. Common breeding resident from lowlands up to mid hills; uncommon and local higher up.

PUFF-THROATED BABBLER

Photographed in Chitwen National Park, Nepal, March 2017

1047                   PUFF-THROATED BABBLER                 Pellomeum ruficeps

NEPAL             141

Frequents bushy undergrowth in broadleaf forest, dense scrub and secondary growth. 15 cm. Locally fairly common resident.

STRIATED BABBLER

Photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2017

STRIATED BABBLER                   Turdoides earlei

NEPAL

Found in tall grasses and reed beds in damper habitats. 21 cm. Resident, locally common in protected areas, rare elsewhere.

JUNGLE BABBLER

985              JUNGLE BABBLER                    Turdoides striata

NEPAL              33

Found in secondary scrub, bushes in cultivation and gardens. 25 cm. Common and widespread resident.

WHITE-BROWED BABBLER

Photographed near Tailem Bend, South Australia March 2015

528          WHITE-BROWED BABBLER                Pomatostomus superciliosus

Australia            (369)

Also known as Happy Family, Stickbirds, Cackler, Twelve Apostles, and Jumper. 18-22 cm. Found in drier scrubby woodlands, mulga, other acacia, mallee, cypress pine; timber, scrub along watercourses,  saltbush. Range mainland Australia, mostly west of Divide and north of Divide in Vic., not in driest part of s. NT and n. SA.

CHESTNUT-CROWNED BABBLER

These Babblers did not want to be photographed. They can be identified from the wing pattern as well as the head. Photographed south of Lake Menindee, NSW March 2015

 525           CHESTNUT-CROWNED BABBLERS             Pomatostmus ruficeps

Australia          (366)

Found drier inland scrubs/woodlands: mallee, mulga, other acacias; cypress pine, belar; on stony ground, sandhills, lignum, Old Man saltbush, samphire. Ranges across se. inland Australia: from sw. Q. n. to Windorah, e. to Mitchell-Dirranbandi; w. NSW, e. to Ligthning Ridge-Nyngan-Condobolin-Moulamein; far nw Vic., e. to Swan Hill; e. to sa, s. to c. Swan Reach; w. to Quorn-w. of Flinders Ras-Maree-e. of L. Eyre to Innamincka. 21-23 cm.

HALL'S BABBLER

404          HALL'S BABBLER                Pomatostomus superciliosos

Australia          (278)

23-25 cm. Found in tall mulga and other acacia scrubs, cypress pine, open eucalypt woodlands, spinifex areas. Range western Queensland and north-western NSW. Not identified until 1960s.

GREY-CROWNED BABBLER

156          GREY-CROWNED BABBLER             Pomatostomus temporalis

Australia      (156)

Also known as Happy Family, Yahoo, Red-breasted Babbler. 29 cm. Found in open forests, woodlands, scrubland, farmland, outer suburbs. Range across n. Australia down to Pilbara in WA, most of NT except sw and se, Queensland except sw, NSW except se and w., found in top third Victoria except nw, and in SA found in central n and in pocket se of state.