Turdoides

Turdoides is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. The species are distributed across Africa and southern Asia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage. Several species that were included in Turdoides in the past have been reassigned to Argya following a 2018 study that found multiple clades.^[1]

Turdoides
Brown babbler (Turdoides plebejus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Leiothrichidae
Genus:	Turdoides Cretzschmar, 1826
Type species
Turdoides leucocephala (white-headed babbler) Cretzschmar, 1826
Species
See list

The genus Turdoides was introduced in 1826 by the German physician Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar specifically for the white-headed babbler.^[2] The name combines the thrush genus Turdus with the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".^[3]

Species

The genus contains the following 19 species:^[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Turdoides nipalensis	Spiny babbler	Nepal
-	Turdoides atripennis	Capuchin babbler	African tropical rainforest
-	Turdoides gilberti	White-throated mountain babbler	Cameroonian Highlands forests
-	Turdoides chapini	Chapin's babbler	western foothills of Albertine Rift montane forests
-	Turdoides rufocinctus	Red-collared babbler	Albertine Rift montane forests
	Turdoides plebejus	Brown babbler	northern sub-Saharan Africa
-	Turdoides leucopygia	White-rumped babbler	Horn of Africa
	Turdoides hindei	Hinde's babbler	Kenya
	Turdoides squamulata	Scaly babbler	riverine and coastal Horn of Africa : Tana, Jubba and Shebelle rivers
	Turdoides jardineii	Arrow-marked babbler	central/southern sub-Saharan Africa
	Turdoides gymnogenys	Bare-cheeked babbler	western Angola and northern Namibia
-	Turdoides leucocephala	White-headed babbler	eastern Sudan, western Ethiopia and Eritrea
	Turdoides reinwardtii	Blackcap babbler	West Africa to southern CAF
-	Turdoides tenbrosa	Dusky babbler	western, eastern and southern South Sudan and adjacent areas
	Turdoides bicolor	Southern pied babbler	Kalahari Basin
-	Turdoides hartlaubii	Hartlaub's babbler	central-southern sub-Saharan Africa
	Turdoides sharpei	Black-lored babbler	Lake Victoria basin
	Turdoides melanops	Black-faced babbler	southern Angola, northern Namibia and Botswana
	Turdoides hypoleuca	Northern pied babbler	Kenya and Tanzania