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Arrow-marked babbler

Turdoides jardineii · Family Leiothrichidae

Turdoides jardineii

Family Leiothrichidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Leiothrichidae
GBIF occurrence records
155,119
Countries and territories with records
19
Arrow-marked babbler
Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa · Arrow-marked Babbler, Turdoides jardineii, at Pilanesberg National Park, Northwest Province, South Africa (29645701316).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · JMK · Turdoides_jardineii_jardineii,_roepe,_R628_by_Tussen-I-Bome,_Gauteng,_a.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · JMK · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 155,119 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (71.2%), Zimbabwe (7.3%), Botswana (5.2%), Kenya (3.5%) and Tanzania (3%); together they account for 90.2% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.28% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Turdoides jardineii combines the genus name Turdoides with the species epithet jardineii. The Warbla app catalog lists 17 species of the genus Turdoides; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Turdoides bicolor, Turdoides plebejus and Turdoides sharpei.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 119 species of the family Leiothrichidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Argya striata. Its record count is 6.4 times the family average (24,267). The family Leiothrichidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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