Malaysian Rail-babbler

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iMalaysian Rail-babbler
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cinclosomatidae
Genus: Eupetes
Species: E. macrocerus
Binomial name
Eupetes macrocerus

Malaysian Rail-babbler

Eupetidae

Eupetes macrocerus Malaysian Rail-babbler Maleise Raltimalia

A strange rail-like piedly-coloured inhabitant of the floor of primary forest in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra (nominate macrocerus), as well as Borneo (ssp. borneensis), distantly related to Australian crow-like birds. Has strongly decreased because much of the lowland primary forest has been cut, and secondary forest usually have too dense a bottom vegetation or do not offer enough shade to be favourable for the species. Locally still common in logged forest or on hill-forest on slopes, and probably not in immediate danger of extinction

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