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Taiwan Scimitar-Babbler (Pomatorhinus musicus)

About Taiwan Scimitar-Babbler (Pomatorhinus musicus)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Perching Birds
  • Family: Tree-Babblers, Scimitar-Babblers and Allies

The Taiwan scimitar babbler is a bird in the family Timaliidae, the Old World babblers. It is endemic to Taiwan. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1859. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the streak-breasted scimitar babbler. Its population is declining, but not rapidly enough for it to be considered vulnerable.

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