Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush (Garrulax castanotis)

Family
Leiotrichidae (Laughingthrushes And Allies)

Size
28 - 30.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Ogilvie-Grant, 1899)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From 400 - 1,700 m.

Range (Guide)

China (mainland) (B) (NB), Laos (B) (NB), Vietnam (B) (NB).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush (Garrulax castanotis) [XC890636]
by \u9ec4\u4e16\u6842shigui huang from Panjia, Danzhou, Hainan, China (song)

Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush (Garrulax castanotis) [XC446659]
by David Edwards from Jianfengling, Hainan, China (call, song)

Subspecies
Garrulax maesi (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Grey Laughingthrush (Garrulax maesi) and Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush (Garrulax castanotis) following Collar (2006).

Formerly treated as conspecific with Grey Laughingthrush (Garrulax maesi).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

varennei (Delacour, 1926) - Eastern Tonkin (Mt Ba Vi) and northern and central Annam, in Vietnam, and adjacent eastern Laos.
castanotis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1899) - Hainan I (China).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Rufous-cheeked Laughingthrush (Garrulax castanotis) - 4 files

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