Pied Shrike-babbler

When to see the Pied Shrike-babbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pied Shrike-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 China.

About the Pied Shrike-babbler

The pied shrike-babbler is a bird species traditionally considered an aberrant Old World babbler and placed in the family Timaliidae. But as it seems, it belongs to an Asian offshoot of the American vireos and may well belong in the Vireonidae. Indeed, since long it was noted that their habits resemble those of vireos, but this was believed to be the result of convergent evolution.

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Easily confused with

Trilling Shrike-babblerPteruthius aenobarbusThe trilling shrike-babbler is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae. Black-headed Shrike-babblerPteruthius rufiventerThe black-headed shrike-babbler is a bird species traditionally placed with the Old World babblers in the family Timaliidae. Clicking Shrike-babblerPteruthius intermediusThe clicking shrike-babbler is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae.