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Malacopteron cinereum
Basic stats
Diet
Insects, small invertebrates
Habitat
Lowland and hill forest understorey
Range
Sundaland and Indochina
Clutch size
2–3 eggs
Incubation period
About 14 days
Size
Small (14–15cm)
Wingspan
~18–20cm
Weight
~16–20g
A rufous-brown babbler with a finely scaled crown pattern and pale throat, typically foraging low down in dense understorey vegetation.
Often joins mixed foraging flocks with other babblers, moving steadily through tangled thickets while probing leaf litter and bark crevices for insects.
