Sumatran Laughingthrush

Sumatran Laughingthrush

Taxobox
name = Sumatran Laughingthrush
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_width =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Timaliidae
genus = " Garrulax "
species = "G. bicolor "
binomial = "Garrulax bicolor "
binomial_authority = Hartlaub, 1844

The Sumatran Laughingthrush, "Garrulax bicolor", is an Old World babbler. The Old World babblers are a large family of Old World passerine birds characterised by soft fluffy plumage. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in Southeast Asia.

This laughingthrush is found in Sumatra, Indonesia and is a feral resident in Singapore.

It was formerly treated as a subspecies of White-crested Laughingthrush, "Garrulax leucolophus".

References

*Collar, N. J. (2006) A partial revision of the Asian babblers (Timaliidae). "Forktail" 22: 85-112.


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