Javan Scimitar Babbler

When to see the Javan Scimitar Babbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Javan Scimitar Babbler

The map shades 2 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 Taiwan.

About the Javan Scimitar Babbler

The Javan scimitar babbler is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is endemic to Java, Indonesia. The Sunda scimitar babbler, which is found in Sumatra, Borneo, and Malaysia, was formerly considered conspecific, with both species being grouped as the chestnut-backed scimitar babbler. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

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Easily confused with

Brown-crowned Scimitar BabblerPomatorhinus phayreiThe brown-crowned scimitar babbler is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. Black-crowned Scimitar BabblerPomatorhinus ferruginosusThe black-crowned scimitar babbler is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. Red-billed Scimitar BabblerPomatorhinus ochraceicepsThe red-billed scimitar-babbler is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae.