Turdoides
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Turdoides is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family, Timaliidae. It contains about 29 species distributed across Africa and southern Asia. They are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage.
It contains the following species:
- Common Babbler (Turdoides caudata)
- Iraq Babbler (Turdoides altirostris)
- Scaly Chatterer (Turdoides aylmeri)
- Southern Pied-babbler (Turdoides bicolor)
- Striated Babbler (Turdoides earlei)
- Fulvous Babbler (Turdoides fulva)
- White-throated Babbler (Turdoides gularis)
- Bare-cheeked Babbler (Turdoides gymnogenys)
- Angola Babbler (Turdoides hartlaubii)
- Hinde's Pied-babbler (Turdoides hindei)
- Northern Pied-babbler (Turdoides hypoleuca)
- Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii)
- Cretschmar's Babbler (Turdoides leucocephala)
- White-rumped Babbler (Turdoides leucopygia)
- Slender-billed Babbler (Turdoides longirostris)
- Large Grey Babbler (Turdoides malcolmi)
- Arabian Babbler (Turdoides squamiceps)
- Black-lored Babbler (Turdoides melanops)
- Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis)
- Brown Babbler (Turdoides plebejus)
- Blackcap Babbler (Turdoides reinwardtii)
- Rufous Chatterer (Turdoides rubiginosa)
- Sharpe's Pied-babbler (Turdoides sharpei)
- Scaly Babbler (Turdoides squamulata)
- Jungle Babbler (Turdoides striata)
- Orange-billed Babbler (Turdoides rufescens)
- White-headed Babbler or Yellow-billed Babbler (Turdoides affinis)
- Rufous Babbler (Turdoides subrufa)
- Dusky Babbler (Turdoides tenebrosa)
[edit] References
- Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) Pp. 70 - 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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