Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler

Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Sphenocichla
Species: S. roberti
Binomial name
Sphenocichla roberti
Godwin-Austen & Walden, 1875

The Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler or Chevron-breasted Babbler (Sphenocichla roberti) is a species of bird in the Old World babbler family (Timaliidae). It is named for the Cachar Hills in southern Assam.

It is found from northeast India, in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and nearby areas. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

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