Chestnut-capped babbler

The chestnut-capped babbler (Timalia pileata) is a passerine bird of the family Timaliidae. It is monotypic within the genus Timalia.[2]

Chestnut-capped babbler
At Baur reservoir area of Uttarakhand, India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Timalia
Horsfield, 1821
Species:
T. pileata
Binomial name
Timalia pileata
Horsfield, 1821

Distribution

This bird is native in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.[1]

The Sukla Phanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal represents the western limit of its distribution.[3]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Timalia pileata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22716320A94490387. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22716320A94490387.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. "ITIS Report Timalia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  3. Baral, H.S., Inskipp, C. (2009) The Birds of Sukla Phanta Wildlife Reserve, Nepal. Our Nature (2009) 7: 56-81 download pdf Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  • Collar, N. J., Robson, C. (2007) Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Christie, D.A. (eds.) Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.


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