Golden Babbler (Cyanoderma chrysaeum) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

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Golden Babbler (Cyanoderma chrysaeum), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Tristan Jobin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Golden Babbler (Cyanoderma chrysaeum), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Rejoice Gassah, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Golden Babbler (Cyanoderma chrysaeum), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Ben Costamagna, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Golden Babbler (Cyanoderma chrysaeum), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Ian Dugdale, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Golden Babbler (Cyanoderma chrysaeum), photo 9 — Photo: (c) desertnaturalist, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Golden Babbler (Cyanoderma chrysaeum), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Mickey Wu, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Golden Babbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Golden Babbler

Regular range

The map shades 10 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

India Malaysia Thailand Bhutan Vietnam Indonesia China Myanmar (Burma) Laos Nepal

About the Golden Babbler

The golden babbler is a babbler species in the family Timaliidae. It occurs from the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia and inhabits subtropical lowland and montane forests. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because of its wide distribution.

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Easily confused with

Black-chinned BabblerCyanoderma pyrrhopsThe black-chinned babbler is a babbler species in the family Timaliidae.

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

Crescent-chested BabblerCyanoderma melanothoraxThe crescent-chested babbler is a babbler species in the family Timaliidae and is native to the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali.

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