Babblers (Timaliidae)
Orange-billed Babbler (Turdoides rufescens) - HBW 12, p. 221
French: Cratérope de Ceylan
German: Ceylondrossling
Spanish: Turdoide Cingalés
Other common names: Ceylon (Rufous) Babbler
Taxonomy: M[alacocercus]. rufescens Blyth, 1847, Sri Lanka.
May form a superspecies with T. striata, and has been treated as conspecific. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW Sri Lanka.
- Near Threatened Enlarge map
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A bird moving in a tree and foraging. Locality Kithulgala Forest Reserve, Kithulgala, Central Province, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Eldert Groenewoud 21 October 2008 3 years ago 21 sec 3.5 -
A bird foraging in a palm tree, congeners calling in the background. Locality Kithulgala Forest Reserve, Kithulgala, Central Province, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 July 2007 2 years ago 15 sec 3.3
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Foraging, a bird belonging to a mixed flock.
Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (Monotypic species)
Fran Trabalon 5 January 2012 10 weeks ago 3 -
Hard to fixe
Locality Kitulgala, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Guy Poisson 5 January 2011 1 year ago 2.5
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calls of flock Locality Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
Desmond Allen 7 September 1996 2 years ago 3
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