Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebrates

ShrublandMedium · 61 g

Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), photo 1 — Photo: Sabarni Sarker · CC BY 4.0

Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), photo 2 — Photo: Sabarni Sarker · CC BY 4.0

Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), photo 3 — Photo: Sagnik Dutta Roy · CC BY 4.0

Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), photo 4 — Photo: Sagnik Dutta Roy · CC BY 4.0

Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), photo 6 — Photo: Sabarni Sarker · CC BY 4.0

Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), photo 7 — Photo: Sabarni Sarker · CC BY 4.0

Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), photo 8 — Photo: Sagnik Dutta Roy · CC BY 4.0

Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Sagnik Dutta Roy, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Spiny Babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Sagnik Dutta Roy, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Spiny Babbler

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

Where to see the Spiny Babbler

Regular range

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

Nepal

About the Spiny Babbler

The spiny babbler is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. Found only in the Middle Hills of Nepal, it can for example be seen around the Kathmandu valley, specifically around the Godavari and Phulchoki area close to the city of Lalitpur.

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

Easily confused with

Hinde's BabblerTurdoides hindeiHinde's babbler, also known as Hinde's pied-babbler, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.

Black-faced BabblerTurdoides melanopsBlack-faced babblers are 21 to 25 cm (8.5 to 10 in) long. Scaly BabblerTurdoides squamulataThe scaly babbler is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.

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