Abbott's Babbler Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Trichastoma tickelli
Family : Pellorneidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Abbott’s Babbler is a medium sized rich brown passerine with a whitish throat and breast (length 15 cm, weight 30 g (female 26 g), wing 7.7 cm, bill 2 cm, tarsus 2.6 cm, tail 5 cm). The adult is plain olive-brown from above with rufous brown on the upper tail coverts and short tail. Its lores and a narrow supercilium are grey. It has a greyish-white throat, breast and center to the belly, the sides of the breast, flanks and undertail-coverts are rich rufous-buff. Its irises are reddish-brown, the legs are brownish and the stout bill is bicoloured with a black upper mandible and grey lower mandible. The male and the female look alike. It feeds mainly on insects and their larvae. It breeds in April-July.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Arundinax aedon
(Thick‑billed Warbler) -
Locustella davidi
(Baikal Grasshopper-warbler) -
Phylloscopus fuligiventer
(Smoky Warbler) -
Pomatorhinus hypoleucos
(Spot‑breasted Scimitar-babbler) -
Actinodura egertoni
(Bar-tailed Treecreeper) -
Phylloscopus tephrocephalus
(Grey-crowned Warbler) -
Acrocephalus orinus
(Large-billed Reed-warbler) -
Orthotomus atrogularis
(Dark‑necked Tailorbird) -
Cyanoderma rufifrons
(White‑hooded Babbler) -
Phyllergates cuculatus
(Brownish‑flanked Bush-warbler)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits -
Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch -
Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths -
Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;photo credit: Tan Kok Hui(www.inaturalist.org/people/ Tan Kok Hui),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;photo credit: Tan Kok Hui(www.inaturalist.org/people/ Tan Kok Hui),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;more information, please contact us.