Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical swamp forest, high altitude shrubland, heavily degraded former forest.
Moustached Babbler (Malacopteron magnirostre) [XC282473]
by Peter Boesman from Danum Valley Field Centre, Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia (song)
Moustached Babbler (Malacopteron magnirostre) [XC809913]
by Craig Robson from Gumut Forest, Selangor, Malaysia (dawn 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.