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TAWNY BELLIED BABBLER

Dumetia hyperythra

Photo by Dhilip
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Description:

The tawny-bellied babbler (Dumetia hyperythra) also known in older Indian works as the rufous-bellied babbler is a small babbler that forages in groups in low scrub forests. Like other members of the large Old World babbler family they are passerine birds characterised by soft fluffy plumage. Found in small groups that skulk inside scrub, three subspecies are recognized in South Asia. The nominate hyperythra and albogularis found in India and phillipsi of Sri Lanka

Habitat:

This babbler is a resident breeding bird in, Sri Lanka, India and southwest Nepal. Its habitat is scrub and tall grassland.

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PublishedDecember 1, 2016

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