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Black-browed Babbler

Posted on March 4, 2021 by admin1  53

In News: After 170 years, a ‘lost’ bird was found in the jungles of Indonesian Borneo.

Black-browed Babbler

  • It is a small brown-grey songbird with a distinctive broad, black eye-stripe running all the way around its head.
  • Scientific Name: Malacocincla perspicillata.
  • It is a songbird species in the family Pellorneidae.
  • The species is endemic to Borneo.
  • Habitat: Subtropical or Tropical moist lowland forests, at altitudes of 200-1170 m.
  • Due to insufficient information, it is still not classified by IUCN.
  • The songbird is threatened by
    • Agriculture.
    • Logging allowed within protected areas.
    • Plantations for rubber and palm oil.
    • Drought fires.
  • Within the next few years, there is a risk of near complete loss of dryland lowland forest in Kalimantan.
  • Recently after 170 years, on October 5, 2020, this bird was spotted and captured alive in southeastern Kalimantan, the part of Borneo that is administered by Indonesia.
  • The finding was reported on February 25 in Birding ASIA, the biannual bulletin of the Oriental Bird Club.
  • Last sighting of bird was by a German naturalist by the name of Carl Schwaner Some time between 1843 and 1848

About Borneo Island

  • The Island boasts of Three Nations:
    • Borneo: A country in itself
    • Pulau Borneo: Part of Malaysia
    • Kalimantan: Part of Indonesia: It is new Capital of indonesia
  • Third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.
  • At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra.

Source: IE


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