The blackcap babbler, (Turdoides reinwardtii), is a member of the Leiothrichidae family. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in southeast Asia. The blackcap babbler is a common resident breeding bird in west Africa from Senegal to Cameroon. Its habitat is thick scrub and forest. This species, like most babblers, is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight. It builds its cup-shaped nest in a tree, concealed in dense masses of foliage. The normal clutch is two or three eggs. The binomial commemorates the botanist Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt.