Babblers (Timaliidae)
Orange-billed Scimitar-babbler (Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps) - HBW 12, p. 170
French: Pomatorhin à bec rouge
German: Rotschnabelsäbler
Spanish: Cimitarra Piquirroja
Other common names: Red-billed/Long-billed Scimitar-babbler, Lloyd's Scimitar-babbler, Ochraceous-headed Scimitar-babbler
Taxonomy: Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps Walden, 1873, Karen Hills, Upper Myanmar.
Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- stenorhynchus Godwin-Austen, 1877 - extreme NE India (E Arunachal Pradesh) and extreme N Myanmar.
- austeni Hume, 1881 - NE India (Meghalaya E to Nagaland and S to Mizoram), SE Bangladesh and N Myanmar.
- ochraceiceps Walden, 1873 - SE Myanmar (including N Tenasserim), NW Thailand, S China (S Yunnan) and N Indochina.
- alius Riley, 1940 - N Thailand, S Laos and Vietnam (C & S Annam).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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An slow motioned view of a bird in a tree and flying away Locality Phan Thiet Road, Di Linh, Annam, Vietnam (ssp alius)
Josep del Hoyo 15 April 2008 4 years ago 20 sec 3.7
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A bird looking down.
Locality Da Lat Plateau, Annam, Vietnam (ssp alius)
Fran Trabalon 24 November 2010 2 years ago 3
- No sound recordings available yet
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