Wildlifeof India
Mount Victoria Babax
Babblers, Laughingthrushes & White-eyes
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Pterorhinus woodi
Basic stats
Diet
Omnivore (SoIB guild)
Habitat
Above 1,200m
Range
Lushai Hills in Mizoram, India, and across the border in the Chin Hills of western Myanmar
The Mount Victoria babax is a passerine of the family Leiothrichidae, formerly treated as conspecific with the Chinese babax. It is found above 1,200 m in the Lushai Hills in the north-east Indian state of Mizoram and across the border into the Chin Hills in western Myanmar (Wikipedia, general species account).
The cached account gives no description, measurements, diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 treats it as an Eastern Himalayan endemic and rates it a High conservation priority, a resident forest bird and omnivore with a Very Restricted range of about 460 km² and insufficient data on trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).
Quick answers
- What does the Mount Victoria Babax eat?
- Omnivore (SoIB guild)
- What habitat does the Mount Victoria Babax live in?
- Above 1,200m
- Where is the Mount Victoria Babax found?
- Lushai Hills in Mizoram, India, and across the border in the Chin Hills of western Myanmar