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Large Grey Babbler

Argya malcolmi · Family Leiothrichidae

Argya malcolmi

Family Leiothrichidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Leiothrichidae
GBIF occurrence records
142,479
Countries and territories with records
3
Large Grey Babbler
Vimal Rajyaguru · Large Grey Babbler, Jayamangali, Vimal Rajyaguru, 01.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Vimal Rajyaguru · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 142,479 occurrence records from 3 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). India accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In India, this species accounts for 0.23% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Argya malcolmi combines the genus name Argya with the species epithet malcolmi. The Warbla app catalog lists 16 species of the genus Argya; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Argya striata, Argya affinis and Argya caudata.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 119 species of the family Leiothrichidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Argya striata. Its record count is 5.9 times the family average (24,267). The family Leiothrichidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Leiothrichidae

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