Sooty-capped Babbler

Sooty-capped Babbler
Sooty-capped Babbler
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Malacopteron
Species: M. affine
Binomial name
Malacopteron affine
(Blyth, 1842)

The Sooty-capped Babbler Malacopteron affine is an Old World babbler. The Old World babblers are a large family of Old World passerine birds characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in southeast Asia.

The Sooty-capped Babbler is also known in Malay as Rimba Tinjau Belukar. Its main diet is small insects.