Grey-hooded Babbler

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Timaliidae (Scimitar-babblers and allies)

Grey-hooded Babbler

Cyanoderma bicolor

灰冠穗鹛 (huī-guān suì-méi)

   

    Malay : Kekicau-Kantan Kelip Borneo

    Japanese : アオメモリチメドリ (ao-me mori chime-dori)
    Kanji 日語漢字 : 青目森知目鳥

    Extent of Occurrence (resident/breeding) : 1,060,000km²
    Migratory Status : Not a Migrant
    Breeding Endemic : No

Taxonomy update for 2022

Chestnut-winged Babbler is split into two species, based on pronounced
differences in plumage and voice (Eaton et al. 2016, Cros et al. 2020),
and evidence of a long-standing lack of gene flow (Cros et al. 2020).

The polytypic group Chestnut-winged Babbler (Chestnut-winged)
Cyanoderma erythropterum [erythropterum Group], with subspecies
erythropterum, pyrrhophaeum, and fulviventre, retains the names
Chestnut-winged Babbler Cyanoderma erythropterum.

The polytypic group Chestnut-winged Babbler (Grey-hooded)
Cyanoderma erythropterum bicolor/rufum, with subspecies bicolor
and rufum, becomes Grey-hooded Babbler Cyanoderma bicolor. :

- Chestnut-winged Babbler (Cyanoderma erythropterum)
- Grey-hooded Babbler (Cyanoderma bicolor)

    Size : 12.5–13.5 cm; C. b. rufum: sexes combined mean 13.25 g, 
                                      C. b. bicolor: male 13.4 g (n = 1), females 12.5–13.0 g

    

    Subspecies (2) and Distribution

• Cyanoderma bicolor bicolor (Blyth, E 1865)
  – Northern Borneo, including the Banggi Islands.
• Cyanoderma bicolor rufum (Chasen, FN; Kloss, CB 1927)
  – Distributed throughout southern Borneo (south of Sabah).

Distribution Map

Cyanoderma bicolor ssp. bicolor
Date : 22 September 2022

Location : Trus Madi Forest Reserve, Tambunan, Bahagian Pedalaman, Sabah