Rufous-fronted babbler
| Rufous-fronted babbler | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Timaliidae |
| Genus: | Stachyridopsis |
| Species: | S. rufifrons |
| Binomial name | |
| Stachyridopsis rufifrons Hume, 1873 | |
The rufous-fronted babbler (Stachyridopsis rufifrons) is a species of bird in the Old World babbler family. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand in moist lowland forests, grass or bamboo up to 2,100 m altitude.
This 12 cm long babbler has a rufous crown, grey supercilium, brown upperparts and pale buff underparts. the juvenile has a paler crown and underparts.
The song is a piping tuh tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh, and the alarm call is a rolled wirrri.
An extirpated endemic Thailand form was formerly separated as Deignan's babbler Stachyris rodolphei (Deignan, 1939), but is now considered as conspecific with to rufous-fronted babbler.
References
- Robson, Craig A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand ISBN 1-84330-921-1
- BirdLife International 2004. Stachyris rufifrons.
- ASEAN centre for Biodiversity
- Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.