Brown Babbler (Turdoides plebejus)

Other Names (World)
Brown Babbler, Sudan Babbler, Sudan Brown Babbler

Family
Leiotrichidae (Laughingthrushes And Allies)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cretzschmar, 1828)

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

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 (44)...)

Brown Babbler (Turdoides plebejus) [XC425641]
by Joost van Bruggen from Kombo South, West Coast Region, Gambia (song)

Brown Babbler (Turdoides plebejus) [XC372193]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Parc national de Bamako, Mali (communal chatter)

Subspecies
Considered to form a superspecies with White-headed Babbler (Turdoides leucocephala) and Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii) and sometimes treated as conspecific with former.

Proposed subspecies uamensis (Cameroon and adjacent western Central African Republic) synonymized with cinerea.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

platycirca (Swainson, 1837) - Southern Mauritania and Senegal east to south-eastern Mali, south-western Niger border area and western Nigeria.
plebejus (Cretzschmar, 1828) - North-eastern Nigeria east to central and southern Sudan.
cinerea (Heuglin, 1856) - South-eastern Nigeria east to southern Sudan and south-western Ethiopia, south to Cameroon, north-eastern DRCongo, Uganda and western Kenya.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Brown Babbler (Turdoides plebejus) - 10 files

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