{"id":14204,"date":"2021-03-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/04-03-2021\/black-browed-babbler\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:00:00","slug":"black-browed-babbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/04-03-2021\/black-browed-babbler","title":{"rendered":"Black-browed Babbler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News: <\/strong>After 170 years, a \u2018lost\u2019 bird was found in the jungles of Indonesian Borneo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black-browed Babbler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cfstatic.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/file_library\/mix_content\/449505577640763600_image.png\" style=\"height:406px; margin-left:50px; margin-right:50px; width:427px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a small brown-grey songbird with a distinctive broad, black eye-stripe running all the way around its head.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Name:<\/strong> <em>Malacocincla perspicillata.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>It is a songbird species in the family Pellorneidae.<\/li>\n<li>The species is <strong>endemic to Borneo<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> Subtropical or Tropical moist lowland forests, at altitudes of 200-1170 m.<\/li>\n<li>Due to insufficient information, it is still not classified by IUCN.<\/li>\n<li>The songbird is <strong>threatened by<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>Logging allowed within protected areas.<\/li>\n<li>Plantations for rubber and palm oil.<\/li>\n<li>Drought fires.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Within the next few years, there is a risk of near complete loss of dryland lowland forest in Kalimantan.<\/li>\n<li>Recently after 170 years, on October 5, 2020, this bird was spotted and captured alive in southeastern Kalimantan, the part of Borneo that is administered by Indonesia.<\/li>\n<li>The finding was reported on February 25 in Birding ASIA, the biannual bulletin of the Oriental Bird Club.<\/li>\n<li>Last sighting of bird was by a German naturalist by the name of Carl Schwaner Some time between 1843 and 1848<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:624px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color:#fce5cd; width:468.0pt\">\n<p><strong>About Borneo Island<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cfstatic.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/file_library\/mix_content\/707304274029659100_image.png\" style=\"height:275px; margin-left:100px; margin-right:100px; width:260px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Island boasts of Three Nations:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Borneo<\/strong>: A country in itself<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pulau Borneo<\/strong>: Part of Malaysia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kalimantan<\/strong>: Part of Indonesia: It is new Capital of indonesia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third-largest island in the world<\/strong> and the <strong>largest in Asia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is <strong>located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-how-after-170-years-a-lost-bird-was-found-in-the-jungles-of-indonesian-borneo-7211451\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News: After 170 years, a \u2018lost\u2019 bird was found in the jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Black-browed Babbler It is a small brown-grey songbird with a distinctive broad, black eye-stripe running all the way around its head. Scientific Name: Malacocincla perspicillata. It is a songbird species in the family Pellorneidae. 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