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What the Puff-throated Babbler sounds like
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Puff-throated babblers are brown above, and white below with heavily brown streaks towards the breast and belly. They have a chestnut crown, long buff supercilium and dusky cheeks. The throat is white, and is sometimes puffed out giving it the English name. Puff-throated babblers have strong legs, and spend a lot of time on the forest floor. They can often be seen creeping through undergrowth in search of their insect food, looking at first glance like a song thrush. Some subspecies have streaks on the mantle while others, especially in Peninsular India, are unstreaked.
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When to see the Puff-throated 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 Puff-throated Babbler
The map shades 11 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Puff-throated Babbler
The puff-throated babbler or spotted babbler is a species of passerine bird found in Asia. They are found in scrub and moist forest mainly in hilly regions. They forage in small groups on the forest floor, turning around leaf litter to find their prey and usually staying low in the undergrowth where they can be hard to spot. However, they have loud and distinct calls, including a morning song, contact and alarm calls. It is the type species of the genus Pellorneum which may, however, currently include multiple lineages.
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Easily confused with
Buff-breasted BabblerPellorneum tickelliThe buff-breasted babbler is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae.
Javan Black-capped BabblerPellorneum capistratumThe Javan black-capped babbler is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae.
White-chested BabblerPellorneum rostratumThe Malayan swamp babbler, previously named the white-chested babbler, is a species of bird in the ground babbler family, Pellorneidae, that is found in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, the Riau Islands, the Lingga Islands and the island of Belitung.
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