Golden Babbler

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

Golden Babbler

Cyanoderma chrysaeum

金头穗鹛 (jīn-tóu suì-méi)

   

    Malay : Kekicau-Kecil Emas

    Japanese : キガシラモリチメドリ (ki-gashira mori chime-dori)
    Kanji 日語漢字 : 黄頭森知目鳥

      Size : 10-12 cm; 6-10 g

    

      Subspecies (6) and Distribution

• Cyanoderma chrysaeum chrysaeum (Blyth, E 1844)
  – Nepal to Sikkim, Assam, Bhutan, sw China and n Myanmar.
• Cyanoderma chrysaeum binghami (Rippon, G 1904)
  – SE Assam to sw Myanmar (Chin Hills and Arakan Yoma Mts.).
• Cyanoderma chrysaeum auratum (Meyer de Schauensee, R 1938)
  – S Myanmar (s Shan State) to extreme n Thailand and n Indochina.
• Cyanoderma chrysaeum assimile (Walden, A 1875)
  – Central Myanmar (west of the Salween River) to nw Thailand.
• Cyanoderma chrysaeum chrysops (Richmond, CW 1902)
  – Hills of Malay Peninsula.
• Cyanoderma chrysaeum frigidum (Hartlaub, KJG 1865)
  – Highlands of w Sumatra.

Cyanoderma erythropterum ssp. erythropterum
Date : 19 May 2024

Location : Jalan High Pines, Fraser's Hill, Mukim Tras, Daerah Raub, Pahang