The chestnut-winged babbler (''Cyanoderma erythropterum'') is a babbler species in the family Timaliidae. It occurs in the

Malay Peninsula The Malay Peninsula (Malay: ''Semenanjung Tanah Melayu'') is a peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area ...

from southern Thailand to Singapore, and in

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

. It inhabits forests and shrublands up to an elevation of . It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. It is chestnut-brown with a greyish face and underparts, and is long. It feeds on small

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

beetles, Phasmida insects, ants, and

Hemiptera Hemiptera (; ) is an order (biology), order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, Reduviidae, assassin bugs, Cimex, bed bugs, and shield bugs. ...

bugs. Its foraging strategy is gleaning. ''Timalia erythroptera'' was the

scientific name In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

proposed by

Edward Blyth Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta. Blyth was born in London in 1810. In 1841 ...

in 1842 for an olive-brown babbler from Nepal. It was later placed in the genus ''

Stachyris ''Stachyris'' is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. Taxonomy The genus ''Stachyris'' was introduced in 1844 in an article by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in which he quotes a diagnosis by Brian Houghton ...

'', but since 2020 is recognised as a '' Cyanoderma'' species. The

grey-hooded babbler The grey-hooded babbler (''Cyanoderma bicolor'') is a babbler species in the family Timaliidae. It occurs in Borneo and Banggai Island. The grey-hooded babbler was formerly considered conspecific to the chestnut-winged babbler (''Cyanoderma eryt ...

(''C. bicolor'') of Borneo was formerly considered conspecific.

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chestnut-winged babbler The chestnut-winged babbler (''Cyanoderma erythropterum'') is a babbler species in the family Timaliidae. It occurs in the Malay Peninsula from southern Thailand to Singapore, and in Sumatra. It inhabits forests and shrublands up to an elevatio ...

Birds of the Malay Peninsula Birds of Sumatra

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