Slender-billed Scimitar Babbler

The slender-billed scimitar babbler is an Old World babbler found from the Himalaya to north-western Vietnam, in subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Xiphirhynchus and moved to Pomatorhinus on the results of a 2009 molecular phylogenetic study of the babblers (Wikipedia, general species account).

The cached account gives no description, measurements, diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 rates it a Moderate conservation priority, a resident and altitudinal migrant forest bird with a Restricted range of about 29,400 km² and insufficient data on trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).