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The brown-capped babbler is a smallish to medium-sized babbler, at 16 cm (6.3 in) including its long tail. It is brown above and rich cinnamon below. It has a dark brown crown. Brown-capped babblers have short dark bills. Their food is mainly insects. They can be difficult to observe in the dense vegetation they prefer, but like other babblers, these are noisy birds, and their characteristic calls are often the best indication that these birds are present.
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When to see the Brown-capped Babbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Brown-capped Babbler
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Brown-capped Babbler
The brown-capped babbler is a member of the family Pellorneidae.
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Easily confused with
Ferruginous BabblerPellorneum bicolorThe ferruginous babbler is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae.
Short-tailed BabblerPellorneum malaccenseThe mourning babbler, previously the short-tailed babbler, is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae.
White-chested BabblerPellorneum rostratumThe Malayan swamp babbler, previously named the white-chested babbler, is a species of bird in the ground babbler family, Pellorneidae, that is found in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, the Riau Islands, the Lingga Islands and the island of Belitung.
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