Blue-winged Minla (Siva cyanouroptera)

Other Names (World)
Blue-winged Minla, Blue-winged Siva

Family
Leiotrichidae (Laughingthrushes And Allies)

Size
14 - 15.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hodgson, 1838)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Bhutan, Cambodia (B), China (mainland), Hong Kong (China) (B), India, Laos (B), Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (58)...)

Blue-winged Minla (Actinodura cyanouroptera) [XC829731]
by Geoff Carey from Phu Chi Dao, Wiang Kaen District, Chiang Rai, Thailand (call)

Blue-winged Minla (Actinodura cyanouroptera) [XC310033]
by Peter Boesman from Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park (near Pong Nam Ron), Fang District, Chiang Mai, Thailand (song)

Subspecies
Subspecies orientalis fairly distinctive. Proposed subspecies croizati (from Sichuan, in south-central China) treated as a synonym of wingatei.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

cyanouroptera (Hodgson, 1838) - Eastern Uttaranchal Pradesh east to Bhutan, all north-eastern Indian hill states and north-western Myanmar.
aglae (Deignan, 1942) - North-eastern India (Mizoram) and western Myanmar (Chin Hills).
wingatei (Ogilvie-Grant, 1900) - North-eastern Myanmar, northern Thailand, Laos, Vietnam (south to central Annam), southern China (discontinuously north-east, central and southern Sichuan south to Yunnan, and south-western Guizhou, Guangxi, southern Hunan and Hainan).
sordida (Hume, 1877) - South-eastern Myanmar (incuding Tenasserim) and north-western and western Thailand.
sordidior (Sharpe, 1888) - Southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.
rufodorsalis (Engelbach, 1946) - South-eastern Thailand and south-western Cambodia.
orientalis (Robinson & Kloss, 1919) - Southern Vietnam (southern Annam) and adjacent eastern Cambodia (Phumi Dak Dam, in southern Mondulkiri).
wirthi (Collar, 2011) - Southern Laos.
croizati Deignan, 1958 - South-western China (south-eastern Sichuan in Ipin region).

References
See References.

Files:

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