Buff‑breasted Babbler Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Pellorneum albiventre
Family : Pellorneidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Buff-breasted Babbler is a dull olive-brown passerine with warm buff underparts (length 15 cm, wing 6.5 cm, bill 1.6 cm, tail 5.2 cm). It is uniform dark olive-brown above with a faint scaling from pale shaft streaks on a slightly more rufescent crown and buff lores. The tail is relatively long and square ended. It has a buff throat and breast, duller buff to olive-brown flanks with a few brown streaks, and a pale buff belly. The male and the female look alike. It has reddish-brown irises, brownish-grey legs and bill with a dark brown upper mandible. It feeds mainly on insects. It breeds in March-June.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Cettia brunnifrons
(Chestnut‑headed Tesia) -
Argya earlei
(Jungle Babbler) -
Acrocephalus orientalis
(Oriental Reed-warbler) -
Phylloscopus xanthoschistos
(Slaty‑bellied Tesia) -
Garrulax pectoralis
(Long‑tailed Sibia) -
Laticilla burnesii
(Puff‑throated Babbler) -
Acrocephalus dumetorum
(Blyth's Reed-warbler) -
Iduna caligata
(Booted Warbler) -
Alcippe nipalensis
(Common Babbler) -
Gampsorhynchus rufulus
(Rufous-vented Grass-babbler (Prinia))
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: markus lilje (www.inaturalist.org/people/markus lilje ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Marc Andersonmore 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: markus lilje (www.inaturalist.org/people/markus lilje ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Marc Andersonmore information, please contact us.