Rufous-vented Grass-babbler (Laticilla burnesii)

Other Names (World)
Rufous-vented Grass-babbler, Rufous-vented Prinia, Long-tailed Prinia, Western Long-tailed Prinia, Western Long-tailed Prinia, Western Long-tailed Grass-warbler, Rufous-vented Grass Babbler

Family
Pellorneidae (Ground Babblers)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Blyth, 1844)

Habitat
Long grasslands, sometimes where mixed with acacias and tamarisks, mainly in the vicinity of large rivers and their tributaries and in swamps.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh (B), India (B), Pakistan (B).

Pakistan (plains of R Indus and its tributaries southern from southern parts of NWFP and Punjab) and adjacent north-western India (riversides of western Punjab, sporadicallly east to Delhi).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010) and decreasing.

Status NT
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Rufous-vented Grass Babbler (Laticilla burnesii) [XC508291]
by Jean Roch\u00e9 from Corbett NP, Uttaranchal, India (song)

Rufous-vented Grass Babbler (Laticilla burnesii) [XC508292]
by id from Corbett NP, Uttaranchal, India (song)

Subspecies
Prinia burnesii (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) was split into Rufous-vented Grass-babbler (Laticilla burnesii) and Swamp Grass-babbler (Laticilla cinerascens) by Rasmussen and Anderton (2005): this treatment is under review by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group.

Forms a species pair with Swamp Grass-babbler (Laticilla cinerascens), both being vocally distinct from other members of genus. The two were formerly considered conspecific, and songs are remarkably similar, but they differ in size, tail length, bill and plumage coloration, and egg colour (in present species white, faintly tinged green, with dark profuse brown speckling), and are also geographically isolated from each other.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

burnesii (Blyth, 1844) - Pakistan, north-western India, Nepal.
nipalensis (Baral et al., 2007) - Eastern Nepal.
nepalicola Baral et al., 2008 - Eastern Nepal.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Rufous-vented Grass-babbler (Laticilla burnesii) - 10 files

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