About Stachyris erythroptera (Blyth, 1842)
The chestnut-winged babbler is a bird species with a body length of 12.5–13.5 cm (4.9–5.3 in). It has a chestnut-brown body, a greyish face, and greyish underparts. Its diet consists of small Coleoptera beetles, Phasmida insects, ants, and Hemiptera bugs, and it forages by gleaning. In 1842, Edward Blyth originally described this species under the scientific name Timalia erythroptera, based on an olive-brown babbler specimen from Nepal. It was later moved to the genus Stachyris, and has been recognized as a species in the genus Cyanoderma since 2020. The grey-hooded babbler (C. bicolor) native to Borneo was formerly considered the same species as the chestnut-winged babbler. This species is distributed across the Malay Peninsula, ranging from southern Thailand to Singapore, and also occurs on Sumatra. It inhabits forests and shrublands at elevations up to 800 m (2,600 ft). It is currently listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
