Slender-billed scimitar babbler

Slender-billed scimitar babbler
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Pomatorhinus
Species: P. superciliaris
Binomial name
Pomatorhinus superciliaris
Blyth, 1842
Synonyms

Xiphirhynchus superciliaris

The slender-billed scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus superciliaris) is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family.

subspecies Xiphirhynchus superciliaris superciliaris from Zuluk in Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary, East Sikkim, Sikkim, India.
Note the unusually long bill used for probing crevices from Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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