Home Log Out
Birdpedia - Swaziland         | Home | Birds | Calendar | Reserves | Field Trips | Sightings | Reports | Contacts | [HBW - BirdLife (v3)] 10/05/2024 04:29:58 PM
Species Database
Find
Quick Links
News
 
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] Print... Email... 

 LC    Arrow-marked Babbler* Id (Atlas):
    Turdoides jardineii

Description (10)
Image of Arrow-marked Babbler
 

Other Names (World)
Arrow-marked Babbler, Arrow Babbler, Jardine's Babbler

Family
Leiotrichidae (Laughingthrushes And Allies)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Smith, 1836)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (78)...)

 
Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii) [XC382891]
     by Faansie Peacock from Mjejane Private Game Reserve, Hectorspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa (song)

 
Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii) [XC280787]
     by Peter Boesman from Cheetah Inn area, Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Considered to form a superspecies with Brown Babbler (Turdoides plebejus) and White-headed Babbler (Turdoides leucocephala) and sometimes treated as conspecific with latter. Subspecies convergens sometimes subsumed in nominate.

Proposed subspecies kikuyuensis (south-western Kenya and adjacent northern Tanzania) merged with emini, and natalensis (southern Mozambique south to Lesotho) included in nominate.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

  • hyposticta (Cabanis & Reichenow, 1877)   -  Southern Gabon, southern PRCongo, south-western DRCongo and north-western Angola.
  • emini (Neumann, 1904)   -  South-western and southern Uganda and south-western Kenya south to eastern DRCongo and north-western and northern Tanzania.
  • tanganjicae (Reichenow, 1886)   -  South-eastern DRCongo and north-central and north-eastern Zambia.
  • kirkii (Sharpe, 1876)   -  South-eastern Kenya, central, eastern and south-eastern Tanzania, north-eastern (eastern part) Zambia, Malawi and northern and central Mozambique.
  • tamalakanei Meyer de Schauensee, 1932   -  West-central and southern Angola east to extreme south-western Zambia, north-eastern Namibia and northern Botswana.
  • convergens Clancey, 1958   -  Northern and eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe (except far north), central Mozambique and coastal north-eastern South Africa.
  • jardineii (Smith, 1836)   -  South-eastern Botswana east to southern Mozambique, south to northern and north-eastern South Africa, Swaziland and north-eastern Lesotho.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii) - 10 files


More Information

BirdLife International

For more information about the Arrow-marked Babbler see... Show Articles BirdLife International Species Factsheet.


Articles about the Arrow-marked Babbler

If you would like to read any articles about the Arrow-marked Babbler... Show Articles Show Articles (0)


No Pictures of Arrow-marked Babbler

If Birdpedia has no pictures of Arrow-marked Babbler or you would like to see more, then try the following...

      Show External Images from BING From BING (10)


No Videos of Arrow-marked Babbler

If Birdpedia has no videos of Arrow-marked Babbler or you would like to see more, then try the following..

      Show External Videos From BING (0)


Where can I observe this species?
Select an area (or leave blank) to see locations where this species has been recorded.

Area
  All   

Optional: Complete the following if you wish to restrict the reserve to within a given distance of a location.

Please enter the Latitude and Longitiude of a given location together with the maximum distance (km) to display a list of reserves within that distance. You must enter a Latitude, a Longitude and a distance greater than 0.
 
Latitude: (Decimal degrees takes precedence)
Deg Min Sec     Decimal degrees (Include compass setting or value)
         or   GPS help
Longitude: (Decimal degrees takes precedence)
Deg Min Sec     Decimal degrees (Include compass setting or value)
         or   Find GPS using Google Maps
Distance Bearing  
Get Sample GPS readings


On What Field Trips was this species observed?
Select an area (or leave blank), and a date range, to see field trips on which this species has been recorded.

Area
  All   

From To  
 

Optional: Complete the following if you wish to restrict the reserve to within a given distance of a location.

Please enter the Latitude and Longitiude of a given location together with the maximum distance (km) to display a list of reserves within that distance. You must enter a Latitude, a Longitude and a distance greater than 0.
 
Latitude: (Decimal degrees takes precedence)
Deg Min Sec     Decimal degrees (Include compass setting or value)
         or   GPS help
Longitude: (Decimal degrees takes precedence)
Deg Min Sec     Decimal degrees (Include compass setting or value)
         or
Distance Bearing  
Get Sample GPS readings


Latest Sightings for Arrow-marked Babbler
Select the Area to restrict the Sightings.

Area
  All