White-crested laughingthrush | |
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White-crested laughingthrush from Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary, East Sikkim district, Sikkim, India | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Leiothrichidae |
Genus: | Garrulax |
Species: | G. leucolophus |
Binomial name | |
Garrulax leucolophus (Hardwicke, 1815) |
The white-crested laughingthrush (Garrulax leucolophus) is a member of the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in forest and scrub from the Himalayan foothills to Indochina. It formerly included the Sumatran laughingthrush as a subspecies, but unlike that species the plumage of the white-crested laughingthrush is rufescent-brown and white, and the black mask is relatively broad.
White-crested laughingthrush singing - Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
The voice of the white-crested laughingthrush