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WoodlandCup nestMedium · 77 g
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Black-faced babblers are 21 to 25 cm (8.5 to 10 in) long. Birds are largely grayish brown with geographically and individually variable white mottling, especially below. The combination of pale yellow or white eyes and black lores (the areas between the eye and the bill) separates this species from similar babblers, though all juvenile babblers have brown eyes. The calls are described as "A nasal 'wha-wha-wha' and a harsh, fast 'papapapa'."
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When to see the Black-faced Babbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Black-faced Babbler
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Kenya.
About the Black-faced Babbler
The black-faced babbler is a species of songbird in the family Leiothrichidae. It was once it was considered conspecific with the black-lored babbler, A. sharpei.
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Easily confused with
Spiny BabblerTurdoides nipalensisThe spiny babbler is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
Hinde's BabblerTurdoides hindeiHinde's babbler, also known as Hinde's pied-babbler, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
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