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Marsh Babbler

Pellorneum palustre

Vulnerable · IUCN Red List

VUVulnerableEndemicInvertebratesWetlandDomed nestSmall · 23 g
Marsh Babbler (Pellorneum palustre), photo 1
Photo: desertnaturalist · CC BY 4.0
Marsh Babbler (Pellorneum palustre), photo 2
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Marsh Babbler (Pellorneum palustre), photo 3
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Marsh Babbler (Pellorneum palustre), photo 4
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Marsh Babbler (Pellorneum palustre), photo 5
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Marsh Babbler (Pellorneum palustre), photo 6
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Marsh Babbler (Pellorneum palustre), photo 7
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Marsh Babbler (Pellorneum palustre), photo 8
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Marsh Babbler (Pellorneum palustre), photo 9
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Marsh Babbler (Pellorneum palustre), photo 10
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

When to see the Marsh Babbler

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

Where to see the Marsh Babbler

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

India

About the Marsh Babbler

The marsh babbler is a member of the family Pellorneidae. The marsh babbler is endemic to the Brahmaputra floodplain, its associated tributaries and adjacent hill ranges in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya in India and eastern Bangladesh.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Ashy-headed Babbler (Pellorneum cinereiceps) Ashy-headed BabblerPellorneum cinereicepsThe ashy-headed babbler is a species of passerine bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae. Spot-throated Babbler (Pellorneum albiventre) Spot-throated BabblerPellorneum albiventreThe spot-throated babbler is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae. Sumatran BabblerPellorneum buettikoferiThe Sumatran babbler is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae.

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