Black-Throated Babbler

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Genre: Animals

Medium: Color

Date Taken: 2012-05-26

Categories: Birds

Camera: Nikon D300, AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/4G ED VR

Exposure: f/6.3, 1/60 seconds

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Date Submitted: 2012-06-05 4:54

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Black-Throated Babbler
(Stachyris nigricollis) 黑喉穗鹛
Size: 16 cm - Ex/RB

Description:
A dark, stout-billed Stachyris-babbler: Lores and forecrown black with fine white streaks, shading to dark olive-brown crown.Face black, ear-coverts grey with short white postocular eyestripe.Black throat with short but broad submoustachial streak and narrow white and black necklace.Breast and belly grey, vent dark olive-chestnut.Upperparts rufous-chestnut.Sexes similar, juveniles duller than adults.
Voice:

Habits:
Undergrowth and egde of primary and secondary evergreen forest. Also in selectively and heavily logged forest, swamp-forest and overgrown rubber plantations. Lowlands to 460m in mainland Asia, up to 1400m on Sumatra. Feeds on invertebrates. Usually seen foraging in low vegetation, sometimes together with White-necked Babbler. Breeding season from May to July in southeast Asia, April to August in Borneo. The nest is a dome with a loose canopy of dry leaves, made of fibrous material. It's placed on or close to the ground in dense undergrowth. Lays 2 white eggs. Brood parasitism by Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo reported.

Distribution:
Extinct resident breeder in Singapore.

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