Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical swamp forest, high altitude shrubland, heavily degraded former forest.
Moustached Babbler (Malacopteron magnirostre) [XC201787]
by Frank Lambert from Tioman, road to Juara, Malaysia (song)
Moustached Babbler (Malacopteron magnirostre) [XC201791]
by Frank Lambert from Tioman, road to Juara, Malaysia (song)
Subspecies
Proposed subspecies flavum (from Anambas Is) merged with nominate.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
magnirostre (Moore, 1854) - Extreme southern Myanmar, western and southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia (including Tioman I), Anambas Is, Singapore and Sumatra.