Spot‑breasted Scimitar-babbler Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Pomatorhinus hypoleucos
Family : Timaliidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Spot-breasted Scimitar Babbler is a medium sized olive-brown passerine with a dull down-curved bill (length 25 cm, weight: 63.5 g in male and female 53.5 g in female, wing 9 cm, bill 3.6 cm, tarsus 4 cm, tail 9.6 cm). The upperparts are entirely pale olive-brown. Its forehead and ear-coverts are rufous. The throat, breast and upper belly are white with bold brown spots on the breast. It has olive-brown sides to the breast, flanks and lower belly, and a rufous vent. Its large bill is down curved and multicoloured: the upper mandible is greyish-brown with a blackish-brown at base, and lower mandible is greyish-brown with yellow base. It has cream, creamy-white or pale straw irises, dark purplish-blue orbital skin, and brown to greyish brown legs and feet. It feeds on insects and their larvae and chrysalises, seeds and berries. It breeds in March-June.
Other Species from Group
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Chrysomma sinense
(Black‑breasted Parrotbill) -
Alcippe nipalensis
(Common Babbler) -
Phylloscopus castaniceps
(Greenish Warbler) -
Iduna rama
(Sykes's Warbler) -
Phyllergates cuculatus
(Brownish‑flanked Bush-warbler) -
Sylvia crassirostris
(Lesser Whitethroat) -
Turdinus brevicaudata
(Indian Grass-babbler (Rufous‑rumped Grassbird)) -
Horornis fortipes
(Aberrant Bush-warbler) -
Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps
(White‑browed Scimitar-babbler) -
Cyanoderma rufifrons
(White‑hooded Babbler)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills
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Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters
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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
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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
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Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby
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Flamingo
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Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch
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Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths
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Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes
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Nightjars -
Barn-owls
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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: porag (www.inaturalist.org/people/ porag ),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;bird song owner:Marc Anderson(www.xeno-canto.org/Marc Anderson), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; 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: porag (www.inaturalist.org/people/ porag ),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;bird song owner:Marc Anderson(www.xeno-canto.org/Marc Anderson), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.