Slender-billed babbler

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| image = Slender-billed_Babbler.jpg

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22716358/0 |title=Turdoides longirostris |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International |year=2012 |access-date=26 November 2013}}

| taxon = Argya longirostris

| authority = (Moore, F, 1854)

| synonyms = Turdoides longirostris

}}

The slender-billed babbler (Argya longirostris) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.

It is found in Bangladesh, Nepal, Northeast India and possibly Myanmar.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Turdoides but following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Argya.{{ cite journal | last1=Cibois | first1=A. | last2=Gelang | first2=M. | last3=Alström | first3=P. | last4=Pasquet | first4=E. | last5=Fjeldså | first5=J. | last6=Ericson | first6=P.G.P. | last7=Olsson | first7=U. | year=2018 | title=Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy | journal=Zoologica Scripta | volume=47 | issue=4 | pages=428–440 | doi=10.1111/zsc.12296 | s2cid=51883434 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Laughingthrushes and allies | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/laughingthrushes/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=20 January 2019 }}

File:Slender-billed Babbler AMSM1310.jpg, Assam, India]]