Rufous-fronted Babbler Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Mixornis gularis
Family : Timaliidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Rufous-fronted Babbler is a small olive passerine with a rufous forehead and grey supercilium (length 12 cm, weight 10 g, wing 5.3 cm, bill 1.4 cm, tarsus 2 cm, tail 4.7 cm). The upperparts are entirely olive-brown apart from a rufous forehead and fore-crown. It has a narrow grey supercilium and greyish lores contrasting with olive brown ear-coverts. The whiteish throat sometimes has narrow dark streaks, the breast, flanks and belly are ochracious, paler on the center of the belly. It has brown to red irises, slaty-blue or dark grey bill, and greenish-yellow legs and feet. The male and the female look alike. It feeds on insects and sometimes berries. It breeds in April-July.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Pellorneum albiventre
(Buff‑breasted Babbler) -
Pnoepyga pusilla
(Pygmy Cupwing (Wren Babbler)) -
Horornis flavolivaceus
(Eastern Orphean Warbler) -
Pomatorhinus schisticeps
(Large Scimitar-babbler) -
Phylloscopus occipitalis
(Grey‑hooded Warbler) -
Phylloscopus fuligiventer
(Smoky Warbler) -
Graminicola bengalensis
(Brown‑cheeked Fulvetta) -
Argya earlei
(Jungle Babbler) -
Locustella certhiola
(Pallas's Grasshopper-warbler) -
Actinodura egertoni
(Bar-tailed Treecreeper)
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: Tan Kok Hui (www.inaturalist.org/people/Tan Kok Hui ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist 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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Tan Kok Hui (www.inaturalist.org/people/Tan Kok Hui ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;more information, please contact us.