Sooty Babbler
Stachyris herberti(Baker, ECS, 1920)
English (US) Sooty Babbler
The Sooty Babbler (Stachyris herberti) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Timaliidae (Tree Babblers, Scimitar Babblers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: central Laos and central VietnamRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Stachyris herberti
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Sooty Babbler
- Described by
- (Baker, ECS, 1920)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Nigravis herberti
- Described by
- (Baker, ECS, 1920)
- Type locality
- 'Ban Sao, Siam,' error [= Ban Lak Sao (lat. 18° 11' N., long. 104° 58' E.), Laos].
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 41 p.10
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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