Mystery bird: rufous chatterer, Turdoides rubiginosa | GrrlScientist

Africa This mystery bird is part of a group that is characterized as a taxonomic nightmare charlatan Rufus Turdoides rubiginosa

(synonyms Argya rubiginosus, Turdoides rubiginosus and
Turdoides saturata

; protonym

Crateropus rubiginosus

), marbled, 1845, also known as red or as talkative the talkative oxidized / charlatan, photographed in Sabana Beach Resort, Lake Langano, Ethiopia (Africa).

Image: Dan Logen, February 5, 2011 (courtesy, for

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Question: Africa This mystery bird is part of a group that is characterized as a taxonomic nightmare. Why is this taxon as a nightmare? Can you name this taxonomic family of birds and species?

response:

is a chatty redhead young

Turdoides rubiginosa

, a sparrow is placed in a taxonomic family, Timaliidae, quacks and Old World parrotbills.

For those Timaliidae unknown, this taxon is known as a taxonomic dustbin "because most of the species placed in it are distinguished by their lack of one or more characters, or because that they not belong to other taxa. Basically Timaliids are songbirds of the Old World tropics that have a variety of morphologies and a range of sizes and colors of plumage, but are placed in Timaliidae because everyone has "graceful plumage in August" Oooookay. That does not sound like a lot of shared character for me. For this reason, doubt, he could have fun know that this taxon is a family of birds of the Old World with the greatest number of species yet to be discovered.

• species placed in the genus,
• Turdoides
, are somewhat more uniform. They tend to be fairly large, long-tailed bird with short rounded wings, most of which have a brown plumage brown or gray-brown.

The talkative redhead is in the dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry brush along Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania [range map]. They feed in small groups in leaf litter, feeding on a wide variety of insects and other invertebrates, and also eat the bark of mango and papaya. Rufous charlatans can often be seen with the talkative brown

T. plebejus

, where their ranges overlap in Sudan.

In its range, can be confused with squamous quack, T. aylmeri

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