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
Domain:	Eukaryota
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]

• Brown babbler, Turdoides plebejus
• Bare-cheeked babbler, Turdoides gymnogenys
• Arrow-marked babbler, Turdoides jardineii
• Scaly babbler, Turdoides squamulata
• White-rumped babbler, Turdoides leucopygia
• White-headed babbler, Turdoides leucocephala
• Blackcap babbler, Turdoides reinwardtii
• Dusky babbler, Turdoides tenebrosa
• Southern pied babbler, Turdoides bicolor
• Northern pied babbler, Turdoides hypoleuca
• Black-lored babbler, Turdoides sharpei
• Black-faced babbler, Turdoides melanops
• Hartlaub's babbler, Turdoides hartlaubii
• Hinde's babbler, Turdoides hindei
• Spiny babbler, Turdoides nipalensis
• White-throated mountain babbler, Turdoides gilberti – previously in Kupeornis
• Red-collared babbler, Turdoides rufocinctus – previously in Kupeornis
• Chapin's babbler, Turdoides chapini – previously in Kupeornis
• Capuchin babbler, Turdoides atripennis – previously in monotypic Phyllanthus