Babbler 23/27 (Bornean Endemic) Oct2022 - Bornean Black-capped Babbler

 

Here again there is a split in species, but I am not considering as a lifer. The Bornean bird is a distinct  thickset brown babbler with a darker crown, an orange breast, and a bright white throat. North Bornean subspecies has a dark face and thin white eyebrows, absent elsewhere. Scurries about on the forest floor like a rodent, rummaging through leaf litter, either singly or in pairs. Found in lowland and foothill forests. Gives a high, piercing “tse-lee” somewhat akin to nails scratching across a blackboard.

The Bornean black-capped babbler (Pellorneum capistratoides) is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae. It is found on Borneo. This species, the Javan black-capped babbler (P. capistratum) and the Malayan black-capped babbler (P. nigrocapitatum ) were formerly considered conspecific, but were split from it in 2021. Together they were called the black-capped babbler. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland (Wiki)