Genus Pellorneum

 

Spot-throated Babbler - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

 

Pellorneum fuscocapillus - The Brown-capped Babbler is an endemic resident breeding bird in Sri Lanka. Its habitat is forest undergrowth and thick scrub. This species, like most babblers, is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight.

 

Marsh Spotted Babbler - The Marsh Babbler, Pellorneum palustre, is an Old World babbler. The Old World babblers are a large family of passerine birds characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in southeast Asia. Marsh Babbler is endemic to the Brahmaputra floodplain, its associated tributaries and adjacent hill ranges in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya in India and eastern Bangladesh.

 

Spotted Babbler - This bird is a common resident breeder in the Himalayas and the hills of Pakistan and India and parts of southeast Asia. Like most babblers, it is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight. Its habitat is scrub and bamboo thickets, where it builds its nest on the ground, laying 2-5 eggs.

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Timaliidae
Genus : Pellorneum