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Rail-babbler

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The rail-babbler or Malaysian rail-babbler (Eupetes macrocerus) is a strange, rail-like, brown and pied ground living bird. [1]

38 relations: Africa, Animal, Biology Letters, Bird, Bird nest, Blue jewel-babbler, Borneo, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Charles Sibley, Chordate, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Crow, Extinction, Greater Sunda Islands, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Heath forest, Malay Peninsula, Malaysia, Monotypic taxon, Montane ecosystems, Natuna Regency, Near-threatened species, New Guinea, Old World babbler, Old-growth forest, Orthonychidae, Passerine, Picathartes, Plumage, Psophodidae, Quail-thrush, Rockjumper, Secondary forest, Songbird, Sumatra, Supercilium, Thailand.

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Biology Letters

Biology Letters is a peer-reviewed, biological, scientific journal published by the Royal Society.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird nest

A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.

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Blue jewel-babbler

The blue jewel-babbler (Ptilorrhoa caerulescens) is a species of bird in the family Psophodidae.

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Borneo

Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

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Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club

The Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club is an ornithological journal published by the British Ornithologists' Club (BOC).

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Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857), was a French biologist and ornithologist.

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Charles Sibley

Charles Gald Sibley (August 7, 1917 – April 12, 1998) was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Coenraad Jacob Temminck

Coenraad Jacob Temminck (31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch aristocrat, zoologist, and museum director.

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Crow

A Crow is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly is a synonym for all of Corvus.

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Extinction

In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.

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Greater Sunda Islands

The Greater Sunda Islands are a group of four large islands within the Malay Archipelago.

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Handbook of the Birds of the World

The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions in partnership with BirdLife International.

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Heath forest

Heath forest is a type of tropical moist forest found in areas with acidic, sandy soils that are extremely nutrient-poor.

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Malay Peninsula

The Malay Peninsula (Tanah Melayu, تانه ملايو; คาบสมุทรมลายู,, မလေး ကျွန်းဆွယ်, 马来半岛 / 馬來半島) is a peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems refers to any ecosystem found in mountains.

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Natuna Regency

The Natuna Regency is an archipelago of 272 islands located in the south part of the South China Sea in the Natuna Sea.

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Near-threatened species

A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as that may be considered threatened with extinction in the near future, although it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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Old World babbler

The Old World babblers or Timaliidae are a family of mostly Old World passerine birds.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.

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Orthonychidae

The logrunners (Orthonyx) are a clade of birds which comprises three species of passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Picathartes

The picathartes, rockfowl or bald crows are a small genus of two passerine bird species forming the family Picathartidae found in the rain-forests of tropical west and central Africa.

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Plumage

Plumage ("feather") refers both to the layer of feathers that cover a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.

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Psophodidae

Psophodidae is a family of passerine birds native to Australia and nearby areas.

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Quail-thrush

A quail-thrush is a bird of the genus Cinclosoma, which contains eight species.

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Rockjumper

The rockjumpers are medium-sized insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Chaetops, which constitutes the entire family Chaetopidae.

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Secondary forest

A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or woodland area which has re-grown after a timber harvest, until a long enough period has passed so that the effects of the disturbance are no longer evident.

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Songbird

A songbird is a bird belonging to the clade Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes).

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Sumatra

Sumatra is an Indonesian island in Southeast Asia that is part of the Sunda Islands.

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Supercilium

The supercilium is a plumage feature found on the heads of some bird species.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail-babbler

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