Common Babbler vs Jungle Babbler

Common Babbler

Argya caudata

Small39 gShrubland

This small, slim babbler with a long tail is buff to grey above with dark streaks. The underside is unstreaked and paler, the throat being nearly whitish. The species was originally described as Crateropus caudatus before it was moved to the genus Argya and still later to Turdoides. The species ending was, however, retained in these new combinations but the corrected feminine form caudata matches the Latin gender of the genus Turdoides.

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Photo: Parth Kansara · CC BY 4.0

Jungle Babbler

Argya striata

66 gUrban

The jungle babbler's habitat is forest and cultivation. This species, like most babblers, is non-migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight. The sexes are identical, drably coloured in brownish grey with a yellow-bill making them confusable only with the endemic yellow-billed babblers of peninsular India and Sri Lanka. The upper parts are usually slightly darker in shade and there is some mottling on the throat and breast. Subspecies somervillei of Maharashtra has a very rufous tail and dark primary flight feathers.

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Recorded by Jairam Vijayan · Duet, song · Payyavoor, Kannur, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Kunwar Singh Virdi · CC0

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