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The Barred Tangerine Skulking Beauty – The Bar-Winged Wren-Babbler

The Bar-Winged Wren-Babbler is a small,
ground-dwelling bird known for its distinctive
black and white barred wings and tail. It is a
beautifully patterned ground-dweller of
mountainous temperate forests with thick
undergrowth. Tangerine-coloured with a pale
throat, black-and-white barred wings and tail,
and
star-like pale spots all over a darker head and
back. Forages in the leaf litter and on the bases
of tree trunks, sometimes in pairs and small
flocks. Spotted patterning bears a passing
resemblance to that of Spotted Elachura, which is
dark brown overall with a far shorter tail.
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The Bar-Winged Wren-Babbler is a long-tailed,
rufous-brown wren-babbler with white-spotted
blackish head, white breast, barred wings and
tail. It is a small bird reaching a length of
only
up to 10 cms in length and weighing 15 to 18 gms.
Male of the Nominate Race has crown and nape
blackish, tinged rufous and heavily spotted
white,
lores, cheek and ear-coverts deep orange-buff;
upperparts umber-brown, each feather with white
subterminal bar and black tip (creating heavy
spotting effect), upperwing and tail narrowly
barred whitish and black; throat white,
underparts
dull rufous, white streaks extending from throat
to breast; iris red-ochre to brown; bill brown or
blackish-horn, paler lower mandible; legs
horn-brown or olive. Female has more
rufous-streaked throat, more extensive and
brighter rufous below. Juvenile is much darker
than adult, blackish-brown above, with
reddish-buff streaks on crown and bars on back,
barring on wings and tail less coherent, more
vermiculate. There are Three subspecies that are
recognized based on marked differences in mainly
in pattern and tone of plumage. The Sub-Species
Souliei found in North Central Arunachal Pradesh
(North East India) East to North Myanmar and
South
China has cheek and ear-coverts brown with buff
shaft streaks, greyish-brown upperparts, white of
throat heavily obscured with brown and rufous,
juvenile underparts dull rufous
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The Bar-Winged Wren-Babbler is found in Bhutan,
China, India, and Myanmar. Its natural habitat is
subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It
is found in dense undergrowth and bamboo thickets
in moist cool temperate forest, including
deciduous, rhododendron, oak, mixed
hemlock-broadleaf and fir forest. Found at 2300
to
3500 mtrs in Indian Subcontinent.
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It feeds on Insects, including Beetles. Sometimes
found in small groups up to six individuals, even
in late Apr (breeding period). More arboreal than
most wren-babblers, clambering about on bamboo
stems and mossy tree trunks, up to 1·5 mtrs
above ground.
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Its Song is a repeated husky rapid rolling warble
of 5 to 8 notes,
“chi’whi-whi’whi-whi’whi-whi’whi”
or “ch-whi-whi-whi-whi”; series also reported as
starting with longer, strongly upslurred note and
ending with shorter, lower and quieter note than
first; regularly repeated at intervals of 2 to 3
seconds.


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Description Credit – Birds of the World (The
Cornell Lab), Oiseaux, Birda, Animalia, Nepal
Desk, Ogaclicks, Birds of India | Bird World,
Bird
Count India & Wiki.
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