Yellow-billed babbler (Juvenile)

Description:

These birds have grey brown upperparts, grey throat and breast with some mottling, and a pale buff belly. The head and nape are grey. The Sri Lankan form T. a. taprobanus is drab pale grey. Nominate race of southern India has whitish crown and nape with a darker mantle. The rump is paler and the tail has a broad dark tip. Birds in the extreme south of India are very similar to the Sri Lankan subspecies with the colour of the crown and back being more grey. The eye is bluish white. The Indian form is more heavily streaked on the throat and breast.

Habitat:

Found it along with a group of babblers in a shrub inside the campus of IIM Trichy, Tamilnadu. This species is patchily distributed in southern India and Sri Lanka. It prefers lower altitudes and drier habitats than the jungle babbler but sometimes is found alongside it.