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.

The Marsh Spotted Babbler is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

Nothing known about the Marsh Spotted Babbler

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Timaliidae
Genus : Pellorneum
Species : palustre
Authority : Gould, 1872