On November 26, 2025, while in Keoladeo NP in Rajasthan, India, about 1.25 miles south of Bharatpur and 34 miles west of Agra, we were taking a motorized rickshaw tour with our guide Ashok. We'd stopped to look at some birds and I was sitting in the rickshaw with my brother-in-law Stan. He pointed to some birds in a tree right next to the rickshaw and I kind of ignored him. Then Ashok came back to the rickshaw and pointed to the birds and said, "those are common babblers, except they are not so common around here." I picked up my camera to take a photo and they flew. At that point I was feeling pretty stupid. I'd had the opportunity to photograph them earlier. So the common babbler is another bird I have included on my life list that I have not photographed.
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| Illustration of common babbler from Birds of the World. |
It is one of the Old World babblers that consists of 58 species. I've seen two other Old World Babblers: the yellow-billed babbler in March 2019 in Kandy and Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka and the jungle babbler in Keoladeo NP the day before.
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| Range of the common babbler from Birds of the World. |
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