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Large Grey Babbler
Latin Name:
Turdoides malcolmi
Category:
Size:
28cm
Description:
Sexes alike. Grey-brown above; dark centres to feathers on back give streaked look; greyer forehead; long graduated tail cross-rayed with white outer feathers, conspicuous in flight; fulvous-grey below. Gregarious; flocks in open country, sometimes dozens together; extremely noisy; moves on ground and in medium-sized trees; hops about, turning over leaves on ground; weak flight, never for long; at any sign of danger, the flock comes together.
Habitat:
scrub, open country, gardens, vicinity of habitation.
Food:
insects, seeds, berries; rarely flower nectar.
Distribution:
from around E Uttar Pradesh, Delhi environs, south through most of peninsula; east to Bihar; abundant in the Deccan.
Call:
Call Description:
very noisy; a chorus of squeaking chatter; short alarm note.
IUCN:
National Status:
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