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Updated India Index Estimated a 21.8% Long-term Increase for Yellow-eyed Babbler

Yellow-eyed Babbler perched in vegetation
Conservation · Population & status

The 2025 interim update to State of India’s Birds, released on 6 May 2026, estimated an increase in the national abundance index for yellow-eyed babbler (Chrysomma sinense). The updated long-term estimate was +21.8%.

The current annual trend was also positive at +1.7% per year. Both updated estimates therefore clearly supported an increase.

The analysis estimated the species’ distribution range in India at 1,498,044 km². The yellow-eyed babbler is treated as a resident, non-specialist species in the State of India’s Birds framework.

The 2025 update used about 48 million eBird observations available through 31 May 2025 and updated numerical trend and range estimates for 942 Indian bird species. The trend values describe change in a reporting-based abundance index rather than direct counts of individual birds.

Sources and image credit

  1. State of India’s Birds Partnership. (2026). State of India’s Birds: Range, trends, and conservation status – 2025 interim update (Version 2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20036633

Image: Anagha devi — wild Yellow-eyed Babbler photographed in India, 24 October 2019; Wikimedia Commons; representative species image; cropped to 16:9 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

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