Fulvous Babbler

Taxobox
name = Fulvous Babbler


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Timaliidae
genus = "Turdoides"
species = "T. fulva"
binomial = "Turdoides fulva"
binomial_authority = (Desfontaines, 1789)
synonyms = "Turdoides fulvus"

The Fulvous Babbler or Fulvous Chatterer ("Turdoides fulva") is a species of bird in the Old World babbler family, Timaliidae. It is 25 cm long with a wingspan of 27-30.5 cm. It is warm brown above with very faint streaking on the crown and back. The throat is whitish and the rest of the underparts are pale brown.

It is found in northern Africa south to the Sahel region and occurs in Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, and Tunisia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/52737/all Turdoides fulva] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 27 July 2007.
* 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.
* Snow, D. W. & Perrins, C. M. (1998) "Birds of the Western Palearctic: Concise Edition", Vol. 2, Oxford University Press, Oxford.