Grey-throated Babbler
Photo © Rejoice Gassah
Photo © Rejoice Gassah — CC BY 4.0 — Source: iNaturalist #110643576The grey-throated babbler (Stachyris nigriceps) is a species of passerine bird in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. == Taxonomy == The grey-throated babbler was formally described in 1844 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth under the current binomial name Stachyris nigriceps. He specified the locality as Nepal. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek stakhus meaning "ear of wheat" and rhis, rhinos meaning "nostrils". The specific epithet nigriceps is from Latin niger meaning "black" and "-ceps" meaning "-headed". Twelve subspecies are recognised: Stachyris nigriceps nigriceps Blyth, 1844 – central, east Himalayas Stachyris nigriceps coltarti Harington, 1913 – northeast India, north Myanmar and southwest China Stachyris nigriceps spadix Ripley, 1948 – east, south Assam (northeast India), east Bangladesh, south, southeast Myanmar and northwest, west Thailand Stachyris nigriceps yunnanensis La Touche, 1921 – east Myanmar, north Thailand and south China to north, central Indochina Stachyris nigriceps rileyi Chasen, 1936 – south Indochina Stachyris nigriceps dipora Oberholser, 1922 – north, central Malay Peninsula Stachyris nigriceps davisoni Sharpe, 1892 –…
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+422 birds+26 mammals
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+393 birds+48 mammals
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+107 birds+2 mammals
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+280 birds+39 mammals
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+16 birds
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+228 birds+16 mammals
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+173 birds+2 mammals
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+443 birds+13 mammals
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