Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical swamp forest, high altitude shrubland, heavily degraded former forest.
Moustached Babbler (Malacopteron magnirostre) [XC29990]
by Yeap Soon Pin from Malua Forest Reserve, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia (call, song)
Moustached Babbler (Malacopteron magnirostre) [XC777976]
by Oscar Campbell from Taman Negara National Park, Pahang, Malaysia (call)
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.