Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii)

Other Names (World)
Arrow-marked Babbler, Arrow Babbler, Jardine's Babbler

Family
Leiotrichidae (Laughingthrushes And Allies)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Smith, 1836)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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 (77)...)

Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii) [XC645217]
by GABRIEL LEITE from Mandegee farm, oloitoktok, Kenya (call)

Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii) [XC70408]
by Rory Nefdt from Mopane Bush Camp, South Africa (alarm call)

Subspecies
Considered to form a superspecies with Brown Babbler (Turdoides plebejus) and White-headed Babbler (Turdoides leucocephala) and sometimes treated as conspecific with latter. Subspecies convergens sometimes subsumed in nominate.

Proposed subspecies kikuyuensis (south-western Kenya and adjacent northern Tanzania) merged with emini, and natalensis (southern Mozambique south to Lesotho) included in nominate.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

hyposticta (Cabanis & Reichenow, 1877) - Southern Gabon, southern PRCongo, south-western DRCongo and north-western Angola.
emini (Neumann, 1904) - South-western and southern Uganda and south-western Kenya south to eastern DRCongo and north-western and northern Tanzania.
tanganjicae (Reichenow, 1886) - South-eastern DRCongo and north-central and north-eastern Zambia.
kirkii (Sharpe, 1876) - South-eastern Kenya, central, eastern and south-eastern Tanzania, north-eastern (eastern part) Zambia, Malawi and northern and central Mozambique.
tamalakanei Meyer de Schauensee, 1932 - West-central and southern Angola east to extreme south-western Zambia, north-eastern Namibia and northern Botswana.
convergens Clancey, 1958 - Northern and eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe (except far north), central Mozambique and coastal north-eastern South Africa.
jardineii (Smith, 1836) - South-eastern Botswana east to southern Mozambique, south to northern and north-eastern South Africa, Swaziland and north-eastern Lesotho.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii) - 10 files

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