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Yellow-eyed Babbler

Chrysomma sinense

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesShrublandCup nestSmall · 17 g
Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), photo 1
Photo: Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), photo 2
Photo: Srivatsan Ramkumar · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), photo 3
Photo: Кирилл · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), photo 4
Photo: Кирилл · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), photo 5
Photo: Mickey Wu · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), photo 6
Photo: Mickey Wu · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), photo 7
Photo: Anirudh Sreeram · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), photo 8
Photo: Кирилл · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), photo 9
Photo: Кирилл · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), photo 10
Photo: Кирилл · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The yellow-eyed babbler is about 18 centimetres (7.1 in) long with a short bill and a long graduated tail. The body above is brown and the wings are cinnamon coloured. The lores and supercilium are white and the rim of the eye is orange-yellow in adult birds. The beak is black. The underside is whitish buff. The central tail feathers are about twice as long as the outermost. The sexes are indistinguishable in the field. Within its wide distribution range there are some differences in plumage between populations that have been considered as subspecies.

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When to see the Yellow-eyed 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-eyed Babbler

Regular range

The map shades 11 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

India Sri Lanka Thailand Myanmar (Burma) Nepal Pakistan China Vietnam Bangladesh Cambodia Laos

About the Yellow-eyed Babbler

The yellow-eyed babbler is a passerine bird native to South and Southeast Asia. It inhabits shrubland, grassland and wetland habitats. On the IUCN Red List, it is listed as Least Concern because of its wide distribution and stable population.

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Easily confused with

Jerdon's Babbler (Chrysomma altirostre) Jerdon's BabblerChrysomma altirostreMeasuring 16–17 cm in length, it is quite intermediate in habitus between certain typical warblers (Sylvia) and the parrotbills (Paradoxornis).

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