The Spiny Babbler is endemic to Nepal, with a gray-brown body and white on parts of the face and chin. It hides in scrub along field edges and streams and moves alone or in small parties.
It is gray-brown, with some white on the face and chin and streaking on the paler underside. The article also describes stiff, spine-like feather shafts on the forehead, crown, and throat.
It shelters in cut scrub along fields and tangled thickets by streams, moving alone or in small scattered parties. It sings from bushes and may imitate other sounds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.