Name:Moupinia poecilotis
Outline:Songbird
Family:Passeriformes Ornithogalidae Babbler
length:13-15cm
Weight:About 13g
Life:No verification information
IUCN:LC
Baoxing Babbler, also known as Rufous-tailed Babbler in English, is a small bird of the Warbler family and the genus Babbler, with no subspecies.
The similar species of Baoxing Babbler, the Golden-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), has exposed nostrils, a brown head and upper body, white eyes and lower cheeks, orange-yellow feet, and a larger body. It is not difficult to distinguish it both in the wild and indoors.
Baoxing Babbler is a resident bird. It mainly inhabits various vegetation types at different altitudes, such as subtropical green broad-leaved forests, coniferous broad-leaved mixed forests, coniferous forests, alpine shrubs, and meadows at an altitude of 1500-3700 meters in Sichuan and northwest Yunnan, China. It moves in pairs or small groups. It is lively and often jumps between the undergrowth, and occasionally makes "ju-ju-ju" or "ji-ji" calls.
Baoxing Babbler mainly feeds on insects. According to 32 bird stomachs dissected by Li Guiyuan et al. (1985) in Sichuan, China, the food is mainly insects and insect larvae of Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, etc., and occasionally eats a small amount of other invertebrates such as spiders and plant fruits and seeds.
The breeding season of Baoxing Babbler is from May to July. It usually nests in the understory of mountain forests at an altitude of 1500-3000 meters. According to a nest found by Li Guiyuan et al. (1985) at an altitude of 1700 meters, the nest is cup-shaped and built on a low tree, about 0.33 meters above the ground. The nest is mainly composed of grass leaves, grass stems and a small amount of bark, with wool and grass stems as padding. The size of the nest is 7.5 cm in outer diameter, 5 cm in inner diameter, 7 cm in height and 5 cm in depth. There are 3 eggs in the nest, which are white in color and covered with ochre, purple-brown or light brown-white spots of varying sizes and shapes, especially denser at the blunt end. The size of the eggs is 18-18.6 mm × 14 mm according to the measurement of 3 eggs, and weighs about 1.7 grams.
Listed in the "Red List of Threatened Species of the World Conservation Union" (IUCN 2016 ver 3.1) - Least Concern (LC).
Listed in the "National List of Terrestrial Wildlife with Important Economic and Scientific Research Value" issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.
Has been listed in the "Global Endangered Bird List" by Bird Life International.
Listed in the second level of the "National Key Protected Wildlife List of China".
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