Alternative names: Red-winged Babbler; Red-winged Tree-babbler
- Cyanoderma erythropterum
Stachyris erythroptera
Identification
12.5 - 13.5cm. A rather small Cyanoderma-babbler:
- Bluish eyering
- Thin dark bill
- Nominate has face, throat, breast and flanks dirty grey, becoming paler on breast and flanks; other subspecies are darker grey and have a complete grey head
- Upperparts, wings and tail chestnut brown (also crown in nominate)
- Legs pale grey to grey-green
Sexes similar.
Similar species
Superficially similar to White-breasted Babbler, but note absence of white on throat and breast and ranges don't overlap.
Distribution
From extreme southern Burma and Thailand through peninsular Malaysia to Sumatra and surrounding islands.
Common in most of its range.
Taxonomy
Formerly included Grey-hooded Babbler.
Subspecies
Clements recognizes these subspecies[1]:
- C. e. erythropterum from extreme southern Myanmar and southern Thailand to peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Natuna Island.
- C. e. pyrrhophaeum on Sumatra, Bangka, Belitung and Batu islands
- C. e. fulviventre on Banyak Island off Sumatra
Has been placed in genus Macronous or in Stachyris.
Habitat
Primary evergreen forest and older secondary evergreen forest. Also in selectively logged forest, bamboo brakes, upland heath, peatswamp-forest or tree plantations. Up to 800 m asl in Thailand, 1220m in Borneo.
Behaviour
Feeds on insects, takes also small fruits.
Usually in small groups, methodically foliage-gleaning in middle storey.
Breeding season from December to September in southeast Asia, maybe multi-brooded and partly a social breeder. The nest is a dome with side entrance made of dead bamboo and other leaves and dry grasses. Lays 2 - 3 eggs. Brood parasitism by Asian Drongo-Cuckoo reported.
Resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2007. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553422
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Chestnut-winged Babbler. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Chestnut-winged_Babbler
External Links
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