Turdoides Babblers
Turdoides
Turdoides is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. The species are distributed across Africa and southern Asia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage. Several species that were included in Turdoides in the past have been reassigned to Argya following a 2018 study that found multiple clades.
The genus Turdoides was introduced in 1826 by the German physician Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar specifically for the white-headed babbler. The name combines the thrush genus Turdus with the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 19 known species
Arrow-marked Babbler
speciesTurdoides jardineii
Brown Babbler
speciesTurdoides plebejus
Southern Pied-Babbler
speciesTurdoides bicolor
Black-lored Babbler
speciesTurdoides sharpei
Hartlaub's Babbler
speciesTurdoides hartlaubii
Northern Pied-Babbler
speciesTurdoides hypoleuca
Bare-cheeked Babbler
speciesTurdoides gymnogenys
Blackcap Babbler
speciesTurdoides reinwardtii
White-rumped Babbler
speciesTurdoides leucopygia
Black-faced Babbler
speciesTurdoides melanops
Spiny Babbler
speciesTurdoides nipalensis
Capuchin Babbler
speciesTurdoides atripennis
Hinde's Pied-Babbler
speciesTurdoides hindei
Dusky Babbler
speciesTurdoides tenebrosa
Cretzschmar's Babbler
speciesTurdoides leucocephala
Red-collared Babbler
speciesTurdoides rufocinctus
White-throated Mountain-Babbler
speciesTurdoides gilberti
Scaly Babbler
speciesTurdoides squamulata
Chapin's Mountain-Babbler
speciesTurdoides chapini
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 15051.