Plain Laughingthrush (Garrulax davidi)

Other Names (World)
Plain Laughingthrush, David's Laughingthrush, Pere David's Laughingthrush, Peking Laughingthrush, David's Babbler

Family
Leiotrichidae (Laughingthrushes And Allies)

Size
23 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swinhoe, 1868)

Habitat
Temperate shrubland. From 1,500 - 3,960 m, occasionally down to 800 m.

Range (Guide)

China (mainland) (B).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (31)...)

Plain Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus davidi) [XC491265]
by Peter Boesman from Beishan National Forest Park, Qinghai, China (song)

Plain Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus davidi) [XC68365]
by Zhang Shen from Qinghai, just outside of Xining, Lao Yi Shan, China (song)

Subspecies
Several further subspecies proposed, including funebris (from north-eastern Qinghai), experrectus (north-western Gansu) and chinganicus (northern Hebei east to north-western Manchuria), but differences negligible or undetectable in larger samples.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

davidi (Swinhoe, 1868) - North-central and north-southern China from north-eastern Qinghai (Qinghai Hu region and Lenglong Ling) east to north-eastern Hebei, extreme south-western Liaoning and northern Henan (Taihang Shan); also, apparently disjunctly, in north-eastern Nei Mongol.
concolor (Stresemann, 1923) - Northern Sichuan (Songpan region south to Baoxing) and adjacent eastern Qinghai (Baima region), in south-central China.
chinganica (Meise, 1934) - Northern Manchuria (Khingan Mountains).
experrecta (Bangs & Peters, 1928) - Northern Gansu (north spur of Nan Shan Mountains).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Plain Laughingthrush (Garrulax davidi) - 10 files

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