Red-billed Scimitar-babbler Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Zosterops palpebrosus
Family : Zosteropidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Red-billed Scimitar Babbler is a medium sized pale olive-brown passerine with a long curved orange-red bill and a prominent white supercilium (length 23 cm, weight 34 g, wing 9 cm, bill 3.3 cm, tail 10.5 cm). The back and wings are pale olive-brown, it has a tawny- olive crown and nape, and brown rounded tail. Its supercilium is conspicuously long and white extending to the side of the neck. It has a broad black eye-stripe extending as a mask over the lores and ear-coverts. It has a white chin and throat, creamy-white breast, and the belly and flanks have a buff wash. It has a long down-curved orange-reddish bill, dull pinkish-cream irises and dull greenish-brown legs and feet. The male and the female look alike. It feeds on insects and nectar. Its usual call is a pair of soft notes: hoop-hoop. It breeds in May-July.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Heterophasia picaoides
(Rusty-fronted Barwing) -
Cettia brunnifrons
(Chestnut‑headed Tesia) -
Tesia cyaniventer
(Chestnut-crowned Bush-warbler) -
Chaetornis striata
(Bristled Grassbird) -
Orthotomus sutorius
(Common Tailorbird) -
Orthotomus atrogularis
(Dark‑necked Tailorbird) -
Turdinus brevicaudata
(Indian Grass-babbler (Rufous‑rumped Grassbird)) -
Cettia castaneocoronata
(Asian Stubtail) -
Phylloscopus tenellipes
(Large‑billed Leaf-warbler) -
Laticilla burnesii
(Puff‑throated Babbler)
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: Imran Shah (www.inaturalist.org/people/Imran Shah ),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: Imran Shah (www.inaturalist.org/people/Imran Shah ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;more information, please contact us.