Hartlaub's babbler

Hartlaub's babbler
In a wetland in the Matetsi Safari Area of western Zimbabwe
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Leiothrichidae
Genus:	Turdoides
Species:	T. hartlaubii
Binomial name
Turdoides hartlaubii (Barboza du Bocage, 1868)

Hartlaub's babbler (Turdoides hartlaubii) or the Angola babbler, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae, which is native to south central Africa. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub. ^[2]

Range

The species is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, DRC, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Gallery

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  In a garden at Shakawe, Botswana, showing white vent plumage
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  Perched in woodland at Moremi, Botswana
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  View of the white rump plumage

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Turdoides hartlaubii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22716450A94495369. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22716450A94495369.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 180–159–160.

• Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World , Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

External links

• Hartlaub's babbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.