Spot‑throated Babbler Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Pellorneum palustre
Family : Pellorneidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Spot-throated Babbler is a small dark olive-brown passerine with white throat and a short tail (length 15 cm, weight 21.5 g, wing 5.6 cm, bill 1.5 cm, tarsus 2.2 cm, tail 4.9 cm). The adult is a uniform dark olive-brown above apart from grey lores and a short grey supercilium, and the short tail has a rounded end. Its white throat has faint, arrowhead-shaped spots. Its breast, flanks and vent are olive-brown, and the center of the belly is whitish. It has reddish-brown irises, brownish-flesh legs and a bicoloured bill: a brownish black or bluish-horn coloured upper mandible and a blue-grey lower mandible. The male and the female look alike. It feeds mainly on insects. It breeds in May-July.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Horornis fortipes
(Aberrant Bush-warbler) -
Phylloscopus humei
(Hume's Leaf-warbler) -
Pnoepyga pusilla
(Pygmy Cupwing (Wren Babbler)) -
Acrocephalus orientalis
(Oriental Reed-warbler) -
Phylloscopus inornatus
(Yellow-browed Warbler) -
Zosterops palpebrosus
(Red-billed Scimitar-babbler) -
Pellorneum albiventre
(Buff‑breasted Babbler) -
Phylloscopus trochiloides
(Pale-legged Leaf-warbler) -
Phylloscopus tristis
(Siberian Chiffchaff) -
Paradoxornis guttaticollis
(White-breasted (Greater Rufous‑headed) Parrotbill)
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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: porag(www.inaturalist.org/people/porag),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Bram Piotmore 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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: porag(www.inaturalist.org/people/porag),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Bram Piotmore information, please contact us.