Turdoides
Turdoides is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. The species are distributed across Africa and southern Asia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage. Several species that were included in Turdoides in the past have been reassigned to Argya following a 2018 study that found multiple clades.
The genus Turdoides was introduced in 1826 by the German physician Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar specifically for the white-headed babbler. The name combines the thrush genus Turdus with the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".
Species
The genus contains the following 19 species:| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
| Turdoides nipalensis | Spiny babbler | Nepal | |
| - | Turdoides atripennis | Capuchin babbler | African tropical rainforest |
| - | Turdoides gilberti | White-throated mountain babbler | Cameroonian Highlands forests |
| - | Turdoides chapini | Chapin's babbler | western foothills of Albertine Rift montane forests |
| - | Turdoides rufocinctus | Red-collared babbler | Albertine Rift montane forests |
| Turdoides plebejus | Brown babbler | northern sub-Saharan Africa | |
| - | Turdoides leucopygia | White-rumped babbler | Horn of Africa |
| Turdoides hindei | Hinde's babbler | Kenya | |
| Turdoides squamulata | Scaly babbler | riverine and coastal Horn of Africa : Tana, Jubba and Shebelle rivers | |
| Turdoides jardineii | Arrow-marked babbler | central/southern sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Turdoides gymnogenys | Bare-cheeked babbler | western Angola and northern Namibia | |
| - | Turdoides leucocephala | White-headed babbler | eastern Sudan, western Ethiopia and Eritrea |
| Turdoides reinwardtii | Blackcap babbler | West Africa to southern CAF | |
| - | Turdoides tenbrosa | Dusky babbler | western, eastern and southern South Sudan and adjacent areas |
| Turdoides bicolor | Southern pied babbler | Kalahari Basin | |
| - | Turdoides hartlaubii | Hartlaub's babbler | central-southern sub-Saharan Africa |
| Turdoides sharpei | Black-lored babbler | Lake Victoria basin | |
| Turdoides melanops | Black-faced babbler | southern Angola, northern Namibia and Botswana | |
| Turdoides hypoleuca | Northern pied babbler | Kenya and Tanzania |