Hartlaub's babbler

Hartlaub's babbler (Turdoides hartlaubii) or the Angola babbler, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae, which is native to south central Africa. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub.[2]

Hartlaub's babbler
In a wetland in the Matetsi Safari
Area of western Zimbabwe
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Leiothrichidae
Genus: Turdoides
Species:
T. hartlaubii
Binomial name
Turdoides hartlaubii

Range

The species is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, DRC, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

  • In a garden at Shakawe, Botswana, showing white vent plumage
    In a garden at Shakawe, Botswana, showing white vent plumage
  • Perched in woodland at Moremi, Botswana
    Perched in woodland at Moremi, Botswana
  • View of the white rump plumage
    View of the white rump plumage

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Turdoides hartlaubii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22716450A94495369. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22716450A94495369.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 180–159–160.
  • 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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