Golden Babbler Cyanoderma chrysaeum Scientific name definitions
Text last updated January 1, 2007
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Bangla (India) | সোনা ছাতারে |
Catalan | timàlia daurada |
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China) | 金頭穗鶥 |
Chinese (SIM) | 金头穗鹛 |
Croatian | zlatni drozdalj |
Dutch | Gouden boomtimalia |
English | Golden Babbler |
English (United States) | Golden Babbler |
French | Timalie dorée |
French (Canada) | Timalie dorée |
German | Goldbuschtimalie |
Indonesian | Tepus emas |
Japanese | キガシラモリチメドリ |
Nepali (India) | निगाले बनभ्याकुर |
Nepali (Nepal) | निगाले वनभ्याकुर |
Norwegian | gulltimal |
Polish | cierniodziób złoty |
Russian | Золотистая тимелия |
Serbian | Zlatna brbljuša |
Slovak | timália zlatá |
Slovenian | Zlata timalija |
Spanish | Timalí Dorado |
Spanish (Spain) | Timalí dorado |
Swedish | gyllentimalia |
Thai | นกกินแมลงหัวสีทอง |
Turkish | Altın Rengi Timalya |
Ukrainian | Гонгтоу золотистий |
Cyanoderma chrysaeum (Blyth, 1844)
Definitions
- CYANODERMA
- chrysaeum / chrysaeus
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Legend Overview
Field Identification
10–12 cm; 6–10 g. Distinctive small babbler with narrowly striped crown, black half-mask and yellow underparts. Nominate race has crown and nape golden-yellow, narrowly and evenly streaked with black, with strong yellow preocular lateral crownstripe bordering black on lores and short black supercilium; upperparts yellowish-olive, upperwing and tail brownish-grey, flight-feathers with narrow yellow-buff fringes; short black submoustachial stripe from lores, plain yellowish-olive ear-coverts; chin to mid-belly bright yellow, shading on sides and below to olive-yellow; iris red or red-brown to brown or brown-grey; bill blackish, paler below, often with pinkish-red or pinkish-flesh base of lower mandible; legs pale yellowish-brown to light brown. Sexes similar. Juvenile is duller and browner above than adult, whiter below, with browner flanks. Race binghami is more greyish-olive above than nominate, weaker yellow below, ear-coverts dark grey; auratum is smaller, with yellowish ear-coverts, less distinct head pattern, paler below; assimile is very like previous, but ear-coverts more greyish-olive, underparts slightly brighter; frigidum differs from last in greener upperparts, much less deeply yellow crown, pale yellow underparts, dusky olive-green sides of body; chrysops is intermediate between preceding two, but more like first of them (assimile).
Systematics History
Editor's Note: This article requires further editing work to merge existing content into the appropriate Subspecies sections. Please bear with us while this update takes place.
Geographical variation poorly defined, and characters separating most races very weak; revision probably needed. Six subspecies tentatively recognized.Subspecies
Unknown race in N Thailand, S Laos and C Vietnam (C Annam).
Cyanoderma chrysaeum chrysaeum Scientific name definitions
Distribution
C Nepal E to Bhutan, NE Indian hill states (except E Mizoram), N and NE Myanmar and adjacent SE Tibet, NW and W Yunnan (China).
Cyanoderma chrysaeum chrysaeum (Blyth, 1844)
Definitions
- CYANODERMA
- chrysaeum / chrysaeus
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Cyanoderma chrysaeum binghami Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Cyanoderma chrysaeum binghami (Rippon, 1904)
Definitions
- CYANODERMA
- chrysaeum / chrysaeus
- binghami
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Cyanoderma chrysaeum auratum Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Cyanoderma chrysaeum auratum (Meyer de Schauensee, 1938)
Definitions
- CYANODERMA
- chrysaeum / chrysaeus
- auratum / auratus
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Cyanoderma chrysaeum assimile Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Cyanoderma chrysaeum assimile (Walden, 1875)
Definitions
- CYANODERMA
- chrysaeum / chrysaeus
- assimile / assimilis
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Cyanoderma chrysaeum chrysops Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Cyanoderma chrysaeum chrysops (Richmond, 1902)
Definitions
- CYANODERMA
- chrysaeum / chrysaeus
- chrysops
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Cyanoderma chrysaeum frigidum Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Cyanoderma chrysaeum frigidum (Hartlaub, 1865)
Definitions
- CYANODERMA
- chrysaeum / chrysaeus
- frigida / frigidum / frigidus
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Distribution
Editor's Note: Additional distribution information for this taxon can be found in the 'Subspecies' article above. In the future we will develop a range-wide distribution article.
Habitat
Movement
Diet and Foraging
Sounds and Vocal Behavior
Song a rapid “tu tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu” or slower “ti tu-tu-tu-tu-tu”, or “chink chink-chink-chink-chink-chink”, usually with 5–10 notes and lasting 1–1·25 seconds; like that of C. rufifrons but notes tend to be clearer, often sounding more spaced, and usually with more obvious pause (occasionally no pause) after first note. Introductory notes sometimes given singly. When alarmed, utters scolding “chrrrrr-rr-rr”, “chrirrrrr” or “chrrrrrr”.
Breeding
Conservation Status
Not globally threatened. Rare and local in Nepal. In Bhutan fairly common; near Zhemgang recorded density of 3·4 territories/km of road at 1600–1900 m, making it one of the commonest birds in warm broadleaf forest in country; present in Thrumshingla National Park. Locally fairly common in NE India, where present in e.g. Buxa Tiger Reserve (West Bengal), Nameri National Park (Assam), and Namdapha National Park, Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary and Mouling National Park (all Arunachal Pradesh). Status in Bangladesh uncertain, but possibly rare or even extinct. Uncommon in Natmautaung National Park, in Myanmar. Common in China, where recently found in Nonggang National Nature Reserve and Chunxiu Nature Reserve, in Guangxi. Generally common in SE Asian range. Common in Doi Inthanon National Park, in Thailand. Common in Dong Hua Sao National Biodiversity Conservation Area (NBCA), locally frequent in Nam Kading NBCA, and common in parts of Nakai-Nam Theun NBCA, in Laos. In Vietnam, present in Ba Be National Park and Na Hang Nature Reserve and common in Tam Dao National Park (all in N), and in six protected areas in the Annamese Lowlands Endemic Bird Area. Present in Gunung Leuser National Park, in Sumatra.
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding