Blackcap Babbler (Turdoides reinwardtii)

Other Scientific Names
Turdoides reinwardtii [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)]

Other Names (World)
Blackcap Babbler, Reinward's Babbler, Black-eyed Babbler

Family
Leiotrichidae (Laughingthrushes And Allies)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1831)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

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

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (39)...)

Blackcap Babbler (Turdoides reinwardtii) [XC356574]
by Bram Piot from Marakissa, Kombo Central, West Coast Region, Gambia (call, song)

Blackcap Babbler (Turdoides reinwardtii) [XC690779]
by Peter Boesman from Senegambia Hotel Garden, Gambia (duet, song)

Subspecies
Has been thought possibly to form a superspecies, and even perhaps to be conspecific, with Black-faced Babbler (Turdoides melanops) and Dusky Babbler (Turdoides tenebrosa).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

reinwardtii (Swainson, 1831) - Senegal east to Mali and Sierra Leone.
stictilaema (Alexander, 1901) - Northern Ivory Coast, southern Burkina Faso and Ghana east to Cameroon, southern Chad, west-central and southern Central African Republic and extreme northern DRCongo.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Blackcap Babbler (Turdoides reinwardtii) - 10 files

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