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BIRD FAMILIES OF THE WORLD
 
 
a web page by Don Roberson
 
 
BABBLERS Timaliidae
  • 259 species in Old World (excluding Australasia), mostly in the tropics
  • DR personal total: 83 species (32%), 18 photo'd

The old Babbler family [Timaliidae] has recently been split into three separate babbler families. I had initially treated these as subfamilies but, following other global checklists, I also now recognize them as three families. Follow these links to those families.


Tree-Babblers & Scimitar-Babblers

[shown: Rufous-capped Babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps]

Ground-Babblers & allies

[shown: Sulawesi Babbler Pellorneum celebense]

Laughingthrushes & allies

[shown: Bare-cheeked Babbler Turdoides gymnogenys]
 
 

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