Chestnut-capped Babbler (Timalia pileata) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ShrublandDomed nestSmall · 16 g

Chestnut-capped Babbler (Timalia pileata), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Supratim Deb, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) · CC-BY-NC-ND

Chestnut-capped Babbler (Timalia pileata), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Octavianti Shanna, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-capped Babbler (Timalia pileata), photo 8 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-capped Babbler (Timalia pileata), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-capped Babbler (Timalia pileata), photo 10 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

ID tip

The chestnut-capped babbler is a medium-sized (15.5–17 cm) babbler with a fairly long, wedge-shaped tail and a thick, black bill. The plumage is unbarred brown with characteristic head markings: a chestnut-coloured crown and black eye mask contrasting with a white forehead and white eyebrow line.

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When to see the Chestnut-capped Babbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Chestnut-capped Babbler

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 10 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.

India Thailand Cambodia Nepal Vietnam China Myanmar (Burma) Laos Indonesia Bangladesh

Recorded as a rare visitor in Hong Kong SAR China.

About the Chestnut-capped Babbler

The chestnut-capped babbler is a passerine bird of the family Timaliidae. It is monotypic within the genus Timalia.

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Easily confused with

White-browed Scimitar BabblerPomatorhinus schisticepsThe white-browed scimitar babbler is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae.

Rufous-fronted BabblerCyanoderma rufifronsIt is buff-brown with paler brown underparts and a dull rufous crown.

Bold-striped Tit-BabblerMixornis bornensisThe bold-striped tit-babbler has a distinctive yellowish supercilium and rufous crown.

Side by side: Chestnut-capped Babbler vs Rufous-fronted Babbler · Bold-striped Tit-Babbler vs Chestnut-capped Babbler

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