Jungle Babblers are very noisy birds found all over India, including cities, suburbs, towns and villages! Belonging to the Babbler family, these birds make harsh kee-kee-kee sounds in such a manner that their group can be recognized from far away.

Commonly found in Indian subcontinent. Jungle babblers (Dumont de Sainte Croix, 1823) which is found over much of northern India south of the Himalayan foothills extending to Bhutan, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and north eastern Andhra Pradesh. The jungle babbler is a common resident breeding bird in most parts of the Indian subcontinent and is often seen in gardens within large cities as well as in forested areas .It is also seen in forest and cultivation Land .This species, like most babblers, is non-migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight.

Jungle Babbler (Dumont) are gregarious birds that forage in small groups of six to ten birds. A habit that has given them the popular name of Seven Sisters or Saath bhai/Saat Behena in Hindi. Young birds have a dark iris. Almost dust brown in colour; they have a dull yellow bill with black in yellow eyes. Older birds have a pale creamy colour and it has been found that the iris has a dark epithelium which becomes invisible when the muscle fibres develop in the iris and make the dark basal colours invisible and then appear cream colour. The jungle babbler lives in flocks of seven to ten or more. It is a noisy bird, and the presence of a flock may generally be known at some distance by the harsh mewing calls, continual chattering, squeaking and chirping produced by its members.

Food habit mainly involves insects, but they also eat grains, nectar and berries. Babblers usually breed throughout the year but the peak breeding season in northern India has been noted between March-April and July-September. Birds are able to breed after their third year. The nest is built halfway in a tree, concealed in dense masses of foliage. For their size, they are long lived and have been noted to live as long as 16.5 years in captivity. When foraging, some birds take up a high vantage point and act as sentinels. They are known to gather and mob potential predators such as snakes.