Turdoides

Taxobox
name = "Turdoides"

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image_width = 225px
image_caption = Jungle Babbler ("Turdoides striata")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Timaliidae
genus = "Turdoides"
genus_authority = Cretzschmar, 1827
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See list

"Turdoides" is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family, Timaliidae. It contains about 29 species distributed across Africa and southern Asia. They are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage.

It contains the following species:
* Common Babbler ("Turdoides caudata")
* Iraq Babbler ("Turdoides altirostris")
* Scaly Chatterer ("Turdoides aylmeri")
* Southern Pied-babbler ("Turdoides bicolor")
* Striated Babbler ("Turdoides earlei")
* Fulvous Babbler ("Turdoides fulva")
* White-throated Babbler ("Turdoides gularis")
* Bare-cheeked Babbler ("Turdoides gymnogenys")
* Angola Babbler ("Turdoides hartlaubii")
* Hinde's Pied-babbler ("Turdoides hindei")
* Northern Pied-babbler ("Turdoides hypoleuca")
* Arrow-marked Babbler ("Turdoides jardineii")
* Cretschmar's Babbler ("Turdoides leucocephala")
* White-rumped Babbler ("Turdoides leucopygia")
* Slender-billed Babbler ("Turdoides longirostris")
* Large Grey Babbler ("Turdoides malcolmi")
* Arabian Babbler ("Turdoides squamiceps")
* Black-lored Babbler ("Turdoides melanops")
* Spiny Babbler ("Turdoides nipalensis")
* Brown Babbler ("Turdoides plebejus")
* Blackcap Babbler ("Turdoides reinwardtii")
* Rufous Chatterer ("Turdoides rubiginosa")
* Sharpe's Pied-babbler ("Turdoides sharpei")
* Scaly Babbler ("Turdoides squamulata")
* Jungle Babbler ("Turdoides striata")
* Orange-billed Babbler ("Turdoides rufescens")
* White-headed Babbler or Yellow-billed Babbler ("Turdoides affinis")
* Rufous Babbler ("Turdoides subrufa")
* Dusky Babbler ("Turdoides tenebrosa")

References

* 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.