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When to see the Sri Lanka Scimitar Babbler
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Sri Lanka Scimitar Babbler
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Sri Lanka Scimitar Babbler
The Sri Lanka scimitar babbler or Ceylon scimitar babbler is an Old World babbler. It is endemic to the island of Sri Lanka and was formerly treated as a subspecies of Indian scimitar babbler. The nominate form is found in the western part of wet hill regions of Sri Lanka, while race holdsworthi is found in the dry lowlands and eastern hills.
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Easily confused with
Slender-billed Scimitar BabblerPomatorhinus superciliarisThe slender-billed scimitar babbler is a passerine bird in the Old World babbler family.
Sunda Scimitar BabblerPomatorhinus bornensisThe Sunda scimitar babbler is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae.
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