Scaly Chatterer (Argya aylmeri) | Photos, Calls and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ShrublandCup nestSmall · 35 g

Scaly Chatterer (Argya aylmeri), photo 2 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scaly Chatterer (Argya aylmeri), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Laura Gaudette, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scaly Chatterer (Argya aylmeri), photo 4 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scaly Chatterer (Argya aylmeri), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Adrien Jailloux, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scaly Chatterer (Argya aylmeri), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Scaly Chatterer (Argya aylmeri), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Scaly Chatterer sounds like

Sonogram of the Scaly Chatterer: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Frank shirima · Call · Mererani, Simanjiro, Arusha Region, Tanzania · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Scaly Chatterer

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Scaly Chatterer

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 3 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.

Kenya Tanzania Ethiopia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Somalia.

About the Scaly Chatterer

The scaly chatterer is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is also known as the bare-eyed babbler. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

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

Easily confused with

Slender-billed BabblerArgya longirostrisThe slender-billed babbler is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.

White-throated BabblerArgya gularisThe white-throated babbler is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.

Iraq BabblerArgya altirostrisThe Iraq babbler is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae, native to the reedbeds of Mesopotamia.

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