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  White-browed Babbler (Pomatostomus superciliosus)





White-browed Babbler | Pomatostomus superciliosus photo
White-browed Babbler (Pomatostomus superciliosus gilgandra) Capertee Valley,Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia

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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

distribution map showing range of Pomatostomus superciliosus in 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)