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BIRD FACTS |
Description
Small babbler with long bill curved downward. Short wings and long tail, often held raised or fanned. Grey-brown to dark-brown, with distinctive white stripe above eye, dark stripe across eye, white throat and chest. 19.5 cm long with wingspan of 25 cm.
Active, noisy and inquisitive, it forages on ground, moving with bouncing hops. Forms cooperative breeding groups, with two to four breeding pairs and a group of supporting birds. Supporting auxiliaries feed and care for the breeding females and young.
Author credit: Alexis Tindall / South Australian Museum
Habitat
Dry, sclerophyll woodlands and open forests with tall or dense understorey.
Food
Insectivore, also seeds and fruit.
Range
Southern Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Pomatostomidae | | Genus: | Pomatostomus | | Species: | superciliosus | | Common Name: | White-browed Babbler |
Relatives in same Genus
Halls Babbler (P. halli)
Chestnut-crowned Babbler (P. ruficeps)
Grey-crowned Babbler (P. temporalis)
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