Turdoides

Turdoides
Jungle babbler (Turdoides striata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Leiothrichidae
Genus:	Turdoides Cretzschmar, 1826
Species
See list
Synonyms
Argya

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)

References

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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.