Old World babblers
timaliidae latin

The systematics of Old World babblers have long been contested.

The former two, and occasionally also the wrentit, were traditionally considered Old World babblers.

Also, many "Old World babblers" remain of unresolved relationships.

They belong to a superfamily also containing Old World babblers, bulbuls, etc.

Also characteristic are pheasants, pittas, Old World babblers, and flowerpeckers.

The Old World babblers are a large family of passerine birds characterised by soft fluffy plumage.

The malia has bulbul-like plumage characters, but its behavior is similar to Old World babblers' and it may be a relative of theirs.

It is closely related to the Old World babblers, and its family Zosteropidae might better be included in the Tiimalidae.

It has been placed with the Old World babblers and the Old World flycatchers.

These species, from the mountains of East Africa, were formerly placed in the large taxon that includes the Old World babblers.

L. liothricis - Old World babblers (Timaliidae species)

Together with other "Old World babblers" of the genus Yuhina, it was recently determined to be better placed in the family Zosteropidae.

It is by no means closely related to the Timaliidae (Old World babblers), where most of the former members of Yuhina are still placed.

It was formerly included with the Old World babblers (Timaliidae), but is actually very closely related to the typical warblers (Sylvia).

The latter genus denoted a group of Old World babblers, currently classed as near-babblers in the genus Illadopsis.

Combined with the yuhinas (and possibly other Timaliidae), the limits of the white-eye clade to the "true" Old World babblers becomes indistinct.

Cryptic warbler, Cryptosylvicola randriansoloi Formerly in Timaliidae (Old World babblers)

The Taiwan scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus musicus) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae, the Old World babblers.

The black-headed shrike-babbler (Pteruthius rufiventer) is a bird species traditionally placed with the Old World babblers in the family Timaliidae.

The typical warblers are now known to form a major lineage in a clade containing also the parrotbills and some taxa formerly considered to be Old World babblers.

For many years, the Australo-Papuan babblers were classified, rather uncertainly, with the Old World babblers (Timaliidae), on the grounds of similar appearance and habits.

These formed a robust clade closer to the Sylvia typical warblers and some presumed "Old World babblers" such as Chrysomma sinense than to other birds.

Major "wastebin" families such as the Old World warblers and Old World babblers have turned out to be paraphyletic and are being rearranged.

They were variously classified as Old World flycatchers, Old World warblers, and Old World babblers.

The entire family used to be included in the Timaliidae.

Stachyris is a genus of bird in the Timaliidae family.

The genus has long been placed in the babbler family Timaliidae.

It previously was placed in the family Timaliidae.

Its family, the Zosteropidae, is probably not valid and belongs in the Timaliidae instead.

At one time, it was placed in the Old World babbler family, Timaliidae.

Others place it in the Timaliidae.

Might be merged into Timaliidae.

Like the other typical fulvettas, it was long included in the Timaliidae genus Alcippe.

Some taxonomists continue to list the species in the Timaliidae, others in the Pellorneidae.

It remains to be seen though if the innovative split of Garrulacidae from Timaliidae will gain wider acceptance.

Probably belongs into Timaliidae.

Cibois (2003b) even suggested that these themselves were to be merged with the remaining Timaliidae and the latter name to be adopted.

They are traditionally placed in the white-eye family, Zosteropidae, which, however, is now considered part of the Timaliidae ().

Its relationships are uncertain and it has been placed in the families Cisticolidae, Timaliidae or Sylviidae.

Genera whose relationships are now known to lie entirely outside the Timaliidae, no matter how these are delimited:

The green shrike-babbler (Pteruthius xanthochlorus) is a bird species that was earlier placed in the family Timaliidae.

Once placed in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae, its position with the vangas is still not universally accepted.

Timaliidae: babblers.

It was placed in the family Timaliidae, but found recently to be better placed in the family Zosteropidae.

The grey-bellied wren-babbler (Spelaeornis reptatus) is a bird species in the family Timaliidae.

The large scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family.

Therefore, the current (early 2007) opinion weighs towards merging the group into the Timaliidae, perhaps as a subfamily ("Zosteropinae").

The chestnut-capped babbler (Timalia pileata) is a passerine bird of the Timaliidae family.

Family Timaliidae (Babblers).