Babblers (Timaliidae)
Long-tailed Sibia (Heterophasia picaoides) - HBW 12, p. 271
French: Sibia à longue queue
German: Schweiftimalie
Spanish: Sibia Colilarga
Taxonomy: Sibia[] Pieaoïdes [sic] Hodgson, 1839, Nepal.
Has sometimes been placed in genus Leioptila. Race cana considered doubtfully valid. Four subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- picaoides (Hodgson, 1839) - C Nepal E to Bhutan, NE India (Arunachal Pradesh), NE Bangladesh, N Myanmar and S China (W Yunnan).
- cana (Riley, 1929) - E & SE Myanmar (including N Tenasserim), NW & W Thailand, Laos, Vietnam (Tonkin and C Annam) and SE China (SE Yunnan E to W Guangxi).
- wrayi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1910) - Peninsular Malaysia.
- simillima Salvadori, 1879 - Sumatra.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A curious bird on a branch, and congeners calling nearby. Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia (ssp wrayi)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 August 2006 3 years ago 36 sec 4 -
A bird calling on a branch, and a bird on the ground. Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia (ssp wrayi)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 August 2006 3 years ago 25 sec 4 -
A bird standing on flowers and feeding Locality Arunachal Pradesh, India (ssp picaoides)
John Gregory 31 March 2007 4 years ago 16 sec 3.9 -
Three birds silhouetted in a tree, then flying away Locality Yingjiang, Yunnan, China (Southern) (ssp picaoides)
Keith Blomerley 11 November 2007 4 years ago 29 sec 3.8 -
A bird eating seeds from a plant Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia
Juan Sanabria 1 August 2010 1 year ago 35 sec 3.8 -
A bird eating seeds from a plant Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia
Juan Sanabria 1 August 2010 1 year ago 36 sec 3
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A single bird foraging in low trees.
Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia (ssp wrayi)
David Beadle 22 September 2011 23 weeks ago 3.6 -
Dangerous place
Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia
Guy Poisson 27 February 2008 1 year ago 3 -
Long-tailed Sibia foraging on flower Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia
RobertKwak 27 March 2009 2 years ago 3 -
A dorsal view of a bird. Locality Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia (ssp wrayi)
LHarding 10 December 2007 3 years ago 2
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calls Locality North Western Thailand, Thailand
Desmond Allen 1 December 1998 2 years ago 3.5
