Vince_Adam Photography
Lifer-Chestnut-winged Babbler (Cyanoderma erythropterum)
This species loves to play hide & seek inside bushes and thick branches making it notoriously difficult to get a clear shot. And normally prefer dark or dimly lit areas. We were lucky that day to get a few seconds of lucky break when this bird suddenly came out in the open and perched for 2-3 seconds. Normally seen in a pair of two or three birds.
Location: Selangor, Malaysia
Distribution: Malay Peninsula from southern Thailand to Singapore, and in Sumatra.
Malay name: Kekicau Sayap Perang, or Rimba Merbah Sampah
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Description: Chestnut babbler is a species of bird belonging to the family Timaliidae. It is about 14 cm.
Attractive reddish-brown babbler with a gray head and bright blue bare skin around the eye. Vocalizing birds can also show a round patch of similarly colored blue skin on the neck. Typically encountered foraging low in the undergrowth of both primary and logged lowland and foothill evergreen forests, often in small to medium-sized flocks. Gives noisy rattling and chipping call notes.
Call: Song is an ethereal, owl-like series of hooting trills.
Lifer-Chestnut-winged Babbler (Cyanoderma erythropterum)
This species loves to play hide & seek inside bushes and thick branches making it notoriously difficult to get a clear shot. And normally prefer dark or dimly lit areas. We were lucky that day to get a few seconds of lucky break when this bird suddenly came out in the open and perched for 2-3 seconds. Normally seen in a pair of two or three birds.
Location: Selangor, Malaysia
Distribution: Malay Peninsula from southern Thailand to Singapore, and in Sumatra.
Malay name: Kekicau Sayap Perang, or Rimba Merbah Sampah
Instagram: www.instagram.com/vinceadam2021/
Description: Chestnut babbler is a species of bird belonging to the family Timaliidae. It is about 14 cm.
Attractive reddish-brown babbler with a gray head and bright blue bare skin around the eye. Vocalizing birds can also show a round patch of similarly colored blue skin on the neck. Typically encountered foraging low in the undergrowth of both primary and logged lowland and foothill evergreen forests, often in small to medium-sized flocks. Gives noisy rattling and chipping call notes.
Call: Song is an ethereal, owl-like series of hooting trills.