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Hall's Babblers are medium-sized babblers. Their plumage is very dark brown throughout, except for a white patch on throat and upper chest, long and wide white eyebrows and a wide white terminal band on the tail. Head and uppertail are the darkest parts, being near-black. The eyes have dark irises. The long, slightly down-curved bill is black. The legs and feet are dark-grey. Juveniles have duller colours and the parts that are white in adults are buff-coloured.

Twitcher's tip

Compared with White-browed Babblers, they are darker of colour and have more colour contrast in their facial masks.

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of Hall's Babbler is available HERE .

NB: Reports on ebird of birds submitted by birdwatchers from the Australian Outback tend to be clustered along roads and public areas such as camp grounds; in such cases their distribution is not a good representation of the overall distribution of the species.

Hall's Babbler is endemic to the interior of the Australian continent. Hall's Babblers exist only in south-western inland QLD, from the Channel Country into the Paroo River catchment, where their range extends farther South into north-western NSW, to about the northern bank of the Darling River roughly from Menindee to Bourke, NSW.

Hall's Babblers have a preference for mainly elevated ridges in dry acacia scrub (e.g. Acacia cambagei) and dry eucalypt woodland.

B. Hensen reports spotting Hall's Babblers at Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, near Cunnamulla, QLD, in October 2012.

M. Eaton reports finding Hall's Babblers at Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary, near Cunnamulla, QLD, in August 2018 and again in June 2019.