Almost everyone that I know who are not involved with birds has not come across the term "Babbler"

Well,  this is the name for a type of small birds found in the wilderness - Forest and hills The closest that the birds ever got involved with human habitats are those public parks with forest fringes. Even then, rather rare too. I have compiled a list of Babblers that could seen in Malaysia. Quite astonishing numbers 38 species. Much larger than that for Flycatchers family. In fact, Babblers form the largest bird family
These are small birds not tiny sharing the sizes of the commonly seen Sunbirds or Flycatchers, are in drab brown colours. They move within and among scrubs and low trees. Very significant for this group of birds is that they make rather low loud calls repeatedly. Melodic and repetitive most times. So the birds, often heard but never seen. If they do come out in the open, it would've for brief seconds They are not shy birds and would hang around remaining undetected
Only a couple of species stay near to parks, I would say almost all of them, most birds remain in thick or pristine undisturbed forest area