Babblers (Timaliidae)
Southern White-rumped Babbler (Turdoides hartlaubii) - HBW 12, p. 224
French: Cratérope de Hartlaub
German: Hartlaubdrossling
Spanish: Turdoide de Hartlaub
Other common names: Angola/Hartlaub’s/White-rumped Babbler
Taxonomy: Crateropus Hartlaubii Bocage, 1868, Bibala, Namibe, Angola.
May form a superspecies with T. leucopygia, perhaps including also T. melanops and T. sharpei; often treated as conspecific with first-named. Proposed race ater (from Rwanda S to NE Zambia and SW Tanzania) considered a synonym of nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- hartlaubii ( Bocage, 1868) - Rwanda and E & SE DRCongo S to NE & W Zambia and SW Tanzania, and to C & SE Angola and NE Namibia.
- griseosquamata Clancey, 1974 - WC Zambia S to N Botswana and extreme W Zimbabwe.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird around a bird table. Locality Ndhovu Lodge, Caprivi Region, Namibia (ssp griseosquamata)
Josep del Hoyo 28 July 1998 6 years ago 7 sec 3.4 -
A bird feeding on the ground. Locality Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, North-West District, Botswana (ssp griseosquamata)
Keith Blomerley 8 January 2007 5 years ago 30 sec 2.8
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Walk through the sewage ponds on the outskirts of Livingstone. Hartlaub's Babbler
Locality Livingstone (Maramba), Southern Province, Zambia
Lee Hunter 7 August 2010 9 weeks ago 4.2 -
Close view, on the ground.
Locality Mahango Game Reserve, Caprivi Region, Namibia (ssp hartlaubii)
Fran Trabalon 15 November 2011 1 year ago 4 -
perched on a log, showing dorsal pattern.
Locality Mahango Game Reserve, Caprivi Region, Namibia (ssp hartlaubii)
Fran Trabalon 15 November 2011 1 year ago 3.7 -
An adult perched on small branches.
Locality Rundu, Kavango Region, Namibia
Ken Havard 14 April 2013 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.5 -
Foraging on the ground
Locality Mahango Game Reserve, Caprivi Region, Namibia
Lindsay Hansch 17 September 2007 2 years ago 3.3 -
A bird on the ground
Locality Katima Mulilo, Caprivi Region, Namibia
Aleix Comas 31 August 2007 3 years ago 3
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calls Locality Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, North-West District, Botswana
(ssp griseosquamata)
Claus Fischer 16 March 2011 2 years ago 4 -
Calls. 1:59pm. Locality Mahango Game Reserve, Caprivi Region, Namibia
(ssp hartlaubii)
Charles Hesse 20 November 2009 3 years ago 4
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