Turdoides melanops: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Leiothrichidae
- Genus
- Turdoides
- Species
- Turdoides melanops
- Scientific Name
- Turdoides melanops
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Black-faced babbler
The black-faced babbler (Turdoides melanops) is a species of songbird in the family Leiothrichidae. It was once it was considered conspecific with the black-lored babbler, A. sharpei.
As defined here, it occurs in northwestern Botswana, northern Namibia, and Angola. Like other Turdoides, it is found low or on the ground in or near dense woody vegetation, including in cultivated areas.
...Turdoides melanops in languages:
- Bokmål
- Ovamboskriketrost
- Czech
- timálie botswanská
- Dutch
- Zwartteugelbabbelaar
- English
- Black-faced Babbler
- English
- BFBA
- Finnish
- rantapensastimali
- French
- Cratérope masqué
- German
- Schwarzzügeldrossling
- Russian
- Чернолицая дроздовая тимелия
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Turdoides atripennis
- Turdoides bicolor
- Turdoides chapini
- Turdoides gilberti
- Turdoides gymnogenys
- Turdoides hartlaubii
- Turdoides hindei
- Turdoides hypoleuca
- Turdoides jardineii
- Turdoides leucocephala
- Turdoides leucopygia
- Turdoides melanops
- Turdoides nipalensis
- Turdoides plebejus
- Turdoides reinwardtii
- Turdoides rufocinctus
- Turdoides sharpei
- Turdoides squamulata
- Turdoides tenebrosa














