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Arrow-marked Babbler
Pylvlekkatlagter · Turdoides jardineii
A sociable, scruffy-looking babbler, brown with pale arrow-shaped streaks on the throat and breast and a bold orange eye. It lives in noisy, cooperative family groups that forage together on the ground and in thickets, breeding as a team with helpers. The flock's outburst of harsh, cackling, contagious chatter, sounding like raucous laughter, carries through riverine bush and woodland.
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Untidy brown bird speckled with white arrow-shaped marks and a staring orange eye; always in noisy, jostling groups.
Listen for its call
Contagious group cackle — one starts and the whole gang erupts.
Where to see it in Kruger
Resident in riverine bush, thickets and woodland park-wide, moving through in rowdy family parties of six to a dozen.
Did you know
A whole gang of them bursts into loud cackling laughter together, which is why they are called babblers.
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