Bold-striped Tit-Babbler (Mixornis bornensis)

Family
Timaliidae (Scimitar-babblers And Allies)

Size
12.50 - 14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bonaparte, 1850)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, swamp forest, mangroves, rural gardens, plantations. From sea-level - 1,525 m.

Range (Guide)

Indonesia (B) (NB), Malaysia (B) (NB).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (77)...)

Bold-striped Tit-Babbler (Mixornis bornensis) [XC359839]
by Greg Irving from Deremakot forest reserve, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia (song)

Bold-striped Tit-Babbler (Mixornis bornensis) [XC94255]
by Mike Nelson from Planted Forests Zone, Wildlife Buffer, Sarawak, Malaysia (call)

Subspecies
Macronous gularis (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Pin-striped Tit-Babbler (Mixornis gularis) and Bold-striped Tit-Babbler (Mixornis bornensis) following Collar (2006).

Formerly treated as conspecific with Pin-striped Tit-Babbler (Mixornis gularis).

Proposed subspeciess ruficoma (from islands of Bangka and Belitung) and pontius (from Pulau Laut, off south-eastern Borneo) regarded as synonyms of nominate.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

zopherus (Oberholser, 1917) - Anamba Is, east of Peninsular Malaysia.
everetti (Hartert, 1894) - Bunguran, in northern Natuna Is.
zaperissus (Oberholser, 1932) - Northern Natunas (except Bunguran).
argenteus (Chasen and Kloss, 1930) - Banggi I and Malawali I, off northern Borneo.
cagayanensis (Guillemard, 1885) - Cagayan Sulu I, in south-western Sulu Sea.
bornensis (Bonaparte, 1850) - Borneo (except Mt Kinabalu area), including Pulau Laut, also Bangka I and Belitung I (off eastern Sumatra).
montanus (Sharpe, 1887) - Mt Kinabalu area, in northern Borneo.
javanicus (Cabanis, 1850) - Western and central Java.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Bold-striped Tit-Babbler (Mixornis bornensis) - 10 files

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