Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii) [XC429669]
by Oscar Campbell from Tarangire National Park, Tanzania (song)
Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii) [XC282067]
by Lynette Rudman from Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda (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.
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.