Turdoides
| Turdoides | |
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| Jungle babbler (Turdoides striata) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Leiothrichidae |
| Genus: | Turdoides Cretzschmar, 1826 |
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Turdoides is a genus of passerine birds in the Leiothrichidae family. It contains about 30 species distributed across Africa and southern Asia. They are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage.
The genus contains the following species:
- Common babbler (Turdoides caudata)
- Afghan babbler (Turdoides huttoni)
- Iraq babbler (Turdoides altirostris)
- Scaly chatterer (Turdoides aylmeri)
- Southern pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor)
- Striated babbler (Turdoides earlei)
- Fulvous babbler (Turdoides fulva)
- White-throated babbler (Turdoides gularis)
- Bare-cheeked babbler (Turdoides gymnogenys)
- Hartlaub's babbler (Turdoides hartlaubii)
- Hinde's babbler (Turdoides hindei)
- Northern pied babbler (Turdoides hypoleuca)
- Arrow-marked babbler (Turdoides jardineii)
- White-headed babbler (Turdoides leucocephala)
- White-rumped babbler (Turdoides leucopygia)
- Slender-billed babbler (Turdoides longirostris)
- Large grey babbler (Turdoides malcolmi)
- Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps)
- Black-faced babbler (Turdoides melanops)
- Spiny babbler (Turdoides nipalensis)
- Brown babbler (Turdoides plebejus)
- Blackcap babbler (Turdoides reinwardtii)
- Rufous chatterer (Turdoides rubiginosa)
- Black-lored babbler (Turdoides sharpei)
- Scaly babbler (Turdoides squamulata)
- Jungle babbler (Turdoides striata)
- Orange-billed babbler (Turdoides rufescens)
- Yellow-billed babbler (Turdoides affinis)
- Rufous babbler (Turdoides subrufa)
- Dusky babbler (Turdoides tenebrosa)
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- 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.