Yellow-billed Babbler

Yellow-billed Babbler

Turdoides affinis

5–10% · With luck
overall probability at Eravikulam National Park
5 Verified records at Eravikulam National Park
December Best month highest sighting rate
🌅 Crepuscular When it's active at dawn and dusk

The yellow-billed babbler (Argya affinis) is a member of the family Leiothrichidae endemic to southern India and Sri Lanka. The yellow-billed babbler is a common resident breeding bird in Sri Lanka and southern India. Its habitat is scrub, cultivation and garden land. This species, like most babblers, is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight and is usually seen calling and foraging in groups. It is often mistaken for the jungle babbler, whose range overlaps in parts of southern India, although it has a distinctive call and tends to be found in more vegetated habitats. Its name is also confused with Turdoides leucocephala, which is also known as white-headed babbler. Wikipedia →

5–10% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-billed Babbler sighting in Eravikulam National Park, based on 5 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.

Closest Relatives at Eravikulam National Park

Rufous Babbler

Rufous Babbler

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Turdoides subrufa

20–30% · Possible
Jungle Babbler

Jungle Babbler

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Turdoides striata

10–20% · With luck
Palani Laughingthrush

Palani Laughingthrush

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Trochalopteron fairbanki

30–40% · Possible
Wynaad Laughingthrush

Wynaad Laughingthrush

Bird

Garrulax delesserti

Insufficient data
Red-whiskered Bulbul
LC

Red-whiskered Bulbul

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Pycnonotus jocosus

80–90% · Very likely
Indian White-eye
LC Endemic

Indian White-eye

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Zosterops palpebrosus

50–60% · Likely
Indian Scimitar-Babbler
LC Endemic

Indian Scimitar-Babbler

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Pomatorhinus horsfieldii

50–60% · Likely
Jungle Myna
LC

Jungle Myna

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Acridotheres fuscus

50–60% · Likely
Greenish Warbler
LC

Greenish Warbler

☀️ Diurnal Bird

Phylloscopus trochiloides

50–60% · Likely
Nilgiri Flowerpecker
LC Endemic

Nilgiri Flowerpecker

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Dicaeum concolor

50–60% · Likely
Oriental Magpie-Robin
LC

Oriental Magpie-Robin

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Copsychus saularis

40–50% · Likely
Nilgiri Flycatcher
LC Endemic

Nilgiri Flycatcher

🌅 Crepuscular Bird

Eumyias albicaudatus

40–50% · Likely

📅 Monthly Probability

<5
Jan
5–10
Feb
<5
Mar
<5
Apr
5–10
May
5–10
Jun
5–10
Jul
5–10
Aug
<5
Sep
5–10
Oct
<5
Nov
10–20
Dec

🌅 When They're Spotted

Most active at dawn and dusk · across all parks (global)

🌅Crepuscular
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Yala National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
50–60%
2 Wilpattu National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
30–40%
3 Mudumalai National Park 🇮🇳 India
30–40%
4 Sinharaja Forest Reserve 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
30–40%
5 Minneriya National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
30–40%
6 Eravikulam National Park 🇮🇳 India
5–10%
7 Nagarhole National Park 🇮🇳 India
5–10%
8 Horton Plains National Park 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
5–10%
9 Bandipur National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%
10 Periyar National Park 🇮🇳 India
<5%

Quick answers

What are the chances of seeing a Yellow-billed Babbler in Eravikulam National Park?

About 6% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-billed Babbler sighting in Eravikulam National Park, based on 5 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.

When is the best time to see Yellow-billed Babbler in Eravikulam National Park?

December has the highest sighting rate for Yellow-billed Babbler in Eravikulam National Park in our monthly data.

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