Spot-necked Babbler (Stachyris strialata)

Other Names (World)
Spot-necked Babbler, Spotted Tree-babbler, Tickell's Spotted Babbler

Family
Timaliidae (Scimitar-babblers And Allies)

Size
15 - 16.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(M�ller, 1835)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

China (mainland), Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.

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).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (71)...)

Spot-necked Babbler (Stachyris) [XC92670]
by Marc Thibault from Tam Dao, Vietnam (call)

Spot-necked Babbler (Stachyris strialata) [XC56550]
by Sam Woods from Tam Dao, Vietnam (song)

Subspecies
Has been thought to form a superspecies with Snowy-throated Babbler (Stachyris oglei) or possibly to be conspecific. Geographical variation slight, despite number of subspecies named. Birds of this species observed in northern Myanmar have not been identified to level of subspecies. Species name often spelt "striolata", but there are no grounds for this emendation.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

helenae Delacour & Greenway, 1939 - North-western Thailand and adjacent northern Laos.
tonkinensis Kinnear, 1938 - Southern China (southern Yunnan east to Yao Shan, in Guangxi), northern and central Laos and Vietnam (Tonkin, northern and central Annam).
swinhoei Rothschild, 1903 - Hainan I.
guttata (Blyth, 1859) - Southern Myanmar (northern Tenasserim) and western Thailand.
nigrescentior Deignan, 1947 - Southern Thailand.
umbrosa (Kloss, 1921) - Northern Sumatra.
strialata (M�ller, 1835) - Southern Sumatra.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Spot-necked Babbler (Stachyris strialata) - 10 files

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