Turdoides
| Turdoides | |
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| File:Brown Babbler - KenyaNH8O0619 (19540603722).jpg | |
| Brown babbler (Turdoides plebejus) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Leiothrichidae |
| Genus: | Turdoides Cretzschmar, 1826 |
| Type species | |
| Turdoides leucocephala (white-headed babbler) Cretzschmar, 1826
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Turdoides is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. The species are distributed across Africa and southern Asia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage. Several species that were included in Turdoides in the past have been reassigned to Argya following a 2018 study that found multiple clades.[1]
The genus Turdoides was introduced in 1826 by the German physician Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar specifically for the white-headed babbler.[2] The name combines the thrush genus Turdus with the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".[3]
Species
[edit | edit source]The genus contains the following 19 species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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| File:Spiny Babbler.jpg | Turdoides nipalensis | Spiny babbler | Nepal |
| - | Turdoides atripennis | Capuchin babbler | African tropical rainforest |
| - | Turdoides gilberti | White-throated mountain babbler | Cameroonian Highlands forests |
| - | Turdoides chapini | Chapin's babbler | western foothills of Albertine Rift montane forests |
| - | Turdoides rufocinctus | Red-collared babbler | Albertine Rift montane forests |
| File:Bird in grass Gambia.jpg | Turdoides plebejus | Brown babbler | northern sub-Saharan Africa |
| - | Turdoides leucopygia | White-rumped babbler | Horn of Africa |
| File:Hinde's Babbler - Kenya S4E9001 (19540613222).jpg | Turdoides hindei | Hinde's babbler | Kenya |
| File:Flickr - Rainbirder - Scaly Babbler (Turdoides squamulatus) (1).jpg | Turdoides squamulata | Scaly babbler | riverine and coastal Horn of Africa : |
| File:Babbler Arrow-marked 2009 10 04 07884.jpg | Turdoides jardineii | Arrow-marked babbler | central/southern sub-Saharan Africa |
| File:Bare-cheeked Babbler-5996 - Flickr - Ragnhild & Neil Crawford.jpg | Turdoides gymnogenys | Bare-cheeked babbler | western Angola and northern Namibia |
| - | Turdoides leucocephala | White-headed babbler | eastern Sudan, western Ethiopia and Eritrea |
| File:Blackcap Babbler (8523389829).jpg | Turdoides reinwardtii | Blackcap babbler | West Africa to southern CAF |
| - | Turdoides tenbrosa | Dusky babbler | western, eastern and southern South Sudan and adjacent areas |
| File:Adult plumage.jpg | Turdoides bicolor | Southern pied babbler | Kalahari Basin |
| - | Turdoides hartlaubii | Hartlaub's babbler | central-southern sub-Saharan Africa |
| File:Black Lored Babbler.jpg | Turdoides sharpei | Black-lored babbler | Lake Victoria basin |
| File:Black-faced Babbler.jpg | Turdoides melanops | Black-faced babbler | southern Angola, northern Namibia and Botswana |
| File:Turdoides hypoleuca -Kenya-8.jpg | Turdoides hypoleuca | Northern pied babbler | Kenya and Tanzania |
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References
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- 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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