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What the Yellow-billed Babbler sounds like
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These birds have grey brown upperparts, a grey throat and breast with some mottling, and a pale buff belly. The head and nape are grey, and the eyes are bluish white. The nominate race, found in southern India, has a whitish crown and nape, with a darker mantle. The rump is pale and the tail has a broad dark tip. The Sri Lankan subspecies A. a. taprobanus is drab pale grey. Birds in the extreme south of India are very similar to the Sri Lankan subspecies with the colour of the crown and back being more grey than the nominate race.
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When to see the Yellow-billed 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 Yellow-billed Babbler
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Yellow-billed Babbler
The yellow-billed babbler is a member of the family Leiothrichidae endemic to southern India and Sri Lanka. The yellow-billed babbler is a common resident breeding bird in Sri Lanka and southern India. Its habitat is scrub, cultivation and garden land. This species, like most babblers, is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight and is usually seen calling and foraging in groups. It is often mistaken for the jungle babbler, whose range overlaps in parts of southern India, although it has a distinctive call and tends to be found in more vegetated habitats. Its name is also confused with Turdoides leucocephala, which is also known as white-headed babbler.
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Easily confused with
Jungle BabblerArgya striataThe jungle babbler's habitat is forest and cultivation.
Large Grey BabblerArgya malcolmiThis long-tailed and large babbler has a brown body with creamy white outer tail feathers which are easily visible as they fly with fluttery wing beats low over the ground.
Common BabblerArgya caudataThis small, slim babbler with a long tail is buff to grey above with dark streaks.
Side by side: Jungle Babbler vs Yellow-billed Babbler · Large Grey Babbler vs Yellow-billed Babbler · Common Babbler vs Yellow-billed Babbler
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