Babblers (Timaliidae)
Long-billed Wren-babbler (Rimator malacoptilus) - HBW 12, p. 211
French: Turdinule à long bec
German: Assamzwergsäbler
Spanish: Ratina Picuda
Taxonomy: R[imator]. malacoptilus Blyth, 1847, Darjeeling, India.
Formerly treated as conspecific with R. pasquieri and R. albostriatus. Monotypic.
Distribution: Sikkim E to NE India (to Arunachal Pradesh; also, disjunctly to S, from Meghalaya E to Nagaland and N Manipur), N Myanmar and adjacent S China (NW Yunnan).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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one briefly pops up on to a rock, almost too close(!) Locality Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 13 April 2010 2 years ago 6 sec 2.7
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Very secretive bird, responded to playback.
Locality Sessni Camp, Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India (ssp malacoptilus)
Jorge de Leon Cardozo 29 December 2010 1 year ago 3.5
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