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ShrublandCup nestMedium · 76 g
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This long-tailed and large babbler has a brown body with creamy white outer tail feathers which are easily visible as they fly with fluttery wing beats low over the ground. The lores are dark and forehead is grey with white shaft streaks on the feathers. The rump and uppertail covers are pale grey. The mantle has dusky blotches and no shaft streaks. The three outer tail feathers are white and the fourth pair has the outer web white. The wings are darker brown. The iris is yellow and the upper mandible is dark brown while the lower mandible is yellowish. The tail is faintly cross barred.
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When to see the Large Grey Babbler
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Large Grey Babbler
The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Large Grey Babbler
The large grey babbler is a member of the family Leiothrichidae found across India and far western Nepal. They are locally common in the scrub, open forest and gardenland. They are usually seen in small groups and are easily distinguished from other babblers in the region by their nasal call and the whitish outer feathers to their long tail. It is one of the largest babblers in the region.
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Easily confused with
Common BabblerArgya caudataThis small, slim babbler with a long tail is buff to grey above with dark streaks.
Rufous BabblerArgya subrufaThis babbler is large and dark olive brown above with a grey forehead.
Arabian BabblerArgya squamicepsIt is 26 to 29 cm (10 to 11 in) long with a wingspan of 31 to 33.5 cm (12.2 to 13.2 in) and a weight of 64 to 87.9 g (2.26 to 3.10 oz).
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