Rufous-capped Babbler

The rufous-capped babbler is a babbler of the family Timaliidae, pale olive with a bright rufous crown and nape, 12 cm long and 7–12 g. It occurs from the Eastern Himalaya to northern Thailand, Laos, eastern China to Vietnam and Taiwan. Edward Blyth proposed the name Stachyris ruficeps in 1847 for an olive-coloured babbler with a ferruginous crown and a white throat collected in Darjeeling; it was later placed in Stachyridopsis (Wikipedia, general species account).

The cached account gives no diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 rates it a Low conservation priority, a resident and altitudinal migrant forest bird with a Moderate range of about 42,600 km² and insufficient data on trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).