Spotted Wren-Babbler (Elachura formosa)

Other Names (World)
Spotted Elachura, Spotted Wren-Babbler, Spotted Short-tailed Wren-babbler, Spotted Wren

Family
Elachuridae (Elachura)

Size
10 - 10.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Walden, 1874)

Habitat
Temperate forest. From 300 - 2,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh (B), Bhutan (B), China (mainland) (B), India (B), Laos, Myanmar (B), Nepal, Vietnam.

Eastern Nepal east to north-eastern Indian hill states, north-eastern Bangladesh, northern and western Myanmar, south-eastern China (W, central and south-eastern Yunnan east to Hunan, north-western Fujian and northern Guangdong), northern and central Laos and northern Vietnam (western Tonkin, northern Annam).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (106)...)

Spotted Elachura (Elachura formosa) [XC78398]
by Frank Lambert from Sanqing Shan, Jiangxi, China (song)

Spotted Elachura (Elachura formosa) [XC804678]
by id from \u5929\u76ee\u5c71\uff0cHangzhou, Zhejiang, China (song)

Subspecies
Possibly closer to Pnoepyga. Recently discovered population in Indochina (Laos) apparently lacks white spotting on throat and breast, and may represent a separate subspecies.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Spotted Wren-Babbler (Elachura formosa) - 10 files

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