Indian Scimitar Babbler
Pomatorhinus horsfieldii
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Timaliidae
- Genus
- Pomatorhinus
- eBird Code
- insbab1
Vocalizations
Seema Merchant · CC_BY_4_0
Seema Merchant · CC_BY_4_0
Seema Merchant · CC_BY_4_0
Hopeland · CC_BY_4_0
Seema Merchant · CC_BY_4_0
Seema Merchant · CC_BY_4_0
Afsar Nayakkan · CC_BY_4_0
Subspecies (4)
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Pomatorhinus horsfieldii horsfieldii
western India (Western Ghats from Satpura Range to Goa)
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Pomatorhinus horsfieldii maderaspatensis
east-central India (Eastern Ghats from Andhra Pradesh to Salem District)
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Pomatorhinus horsfieldii obscurus
northwestern India (Aravalli Mountains of Rajasthan)
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Pomatorhinus horsfieldii travancoreensis
southwestern India (Goa south to Kerala and western Tamil Nadu)
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.