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Old World babbler



         


Babblers

Jungle Babbler

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Timaliidae
Genera
almost 50: see text

The Old World babblers are a large family of Old World passerine birds. They are rather diverse in size and coloration, but are characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in southeast Asia. They are one of two unrelated groups of birds known as babblers.

These birds have strong legs, and many are quite terrestrial. This group is not strongly migratory, and most species have short rounded wings, and a weak flight.

The species are:

Family: Timaliidae






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