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 LC    Grey-sided Laughingthrush* Id (Atlas):
    Garrulax caerulatus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Grey-sided Laughingthrush, Gray-sided Laughingthrush

Family
Leiotrichidae (Laughingthrushes And Allies)

Size
26.50 - 28.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hodgson, 1836)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, high altitude shrubland. From sea-level - 600 m.

Range (Guide)
Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan (China).

Introduced to USA.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and decreasing.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (37)...)

 
Grey-sided Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus caerulatus) [XC390562]
     by Dibyendu Ash from Yuksom, West Sikkim, Sikkim, India (call, song)

 
Grey-sided Laughingthrush (Pterorhinus caerulatus) [XC23930]
     by Frank Lambert from Yunfeng Shan, Yunnan, China (song)

Subspecies
Closely related to and may form a superspecies with Buffy Laughingthrush (Garrulax berthemyi) and Rusty Laughingthrush (Garrulax poecilorhynchus) and in the past all three were treated as conspecific.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • caerulatus (Hodgson, 1836)   -  Central Nepal east to Bhutan and north-eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh except south-east).
  • subcaerulatus (Hume, 1878)   -  Meghalaya and adjacent southern Assam, in north-eastern India.
  • livingstoni (Ripley, 1952)   -  South-eastern Arunachal Pradesh south to Mizoram (north-eastern India) and adjacent north-western Myanmar.
  • latifrons (Rothschild, 1926)   -  Extreme north-eastern Myanmar and adjacent southern China (north-western Yunnan).
  • kaurensis (Rippon, 1901)   -  Eastern Myanmar and adjacent western Yunnan.



References
See References.


Files:
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