Laughingthrush
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 Masked Laughingthrush Garrulax perspicillatus | ||||||||||||
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The Laughingthrushes are the genus Garrulax of the large Old World babbler family of passerine birds. They occur in tropical Asia, with the greatest number of species occurring in the Himalaya and southern China.
These are rangy, medium-sized, floppy-tailed landbirds with soft fluffy plumage. These birds have strong legs and are quite terrestrial. This group is not strongly migratory, and most species have short rounded wings, and a weak flight.
A few, like Streaked Laughingthrush occur in fairly open habitats, but most are jungle species, difficult to observe in the dense vegetation they prefer.
Like other babblers, these are noisy birds, and the characteristic laughing calls are often the best indication that these birds are present. As with other babbler species, they frequently occur in groups of up to a dozen, and the rainforest species like Ashy-headed Laughingthrush often occur in the mixed feeding flocks typical of tropical Asian jungle.
Species
- Garrulax affinis - Black-faced Laughingthrush
- Garrulax albogularis - White-throated Laughingthrush
- Garrulax austeni - Brown-capped Laughingthrush
- Garrulax bieti - Biet's Laughingthrush
- Garrulax cachinnans - Rufous-breasted Laughingthrush
- Garrulax caerulatus - Grey-sided Laughingthrush
- Garrulax canorus - Hwamei
- Garrulax chinensis - Black-throated Laughingthrush
- Garrulax cineraceus - Moustached Laughingthrush
- Garrulax cinereifrons - Ashy-headed Laughingthrush
- Garrulax courtoisi - Courtois's Laughingbird
- Garrulax davidi - Pere David's Laughingthrush, Plain Laughingbird
- Garrulax delesserti - Wynaad Laughingthrush
- Garrulax elliotii - Elliot's Laughingthrush
- Garrulax erythrocephalus - Chestnut-crowned Laughingthrush
- Garrulax formosus - Red-winged Laughingthrush
- Garrulax galbanus - Yellow-throated Laughingthrush
- Garrulax galbanus simaoensis
- Garrulax gularis - Rufous-vented Laughingthrush
- Garrulax henrici -Prince Henry's Laughingthrush
- Garrulax jerdoni - Grey-breasted Laughingthrush
- Garrulax konkakinhensis -Chestnut-eared Laughingthrush
- Garrulax leucolophus - White-crested Laughingthrush
- Garrulax lineatus - Streaked Laughingthrush
- Garrulax lugubris - Black Laughingthrush
- Garrulax lunulatus - Barred Laughingthrush
- Garrulax maesi - Grey Laughingthrush
- Garrulax maximus - Giant Laughingthrush
- Garrulax merulinus - Spot-breasted Laughingthrush
- Garrulax milleti - Black-hooded Laughingthrush
- Garrulax milleti sweeti
- Garrulax milnei - Red-tailed Laughingthrush
- Garrulax mitratus - Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush
- Garrulax monileger - Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush
- Garrulax morrisonianus - White-whiskered Laughingthrush
- Garrulax ngoclinhensis - Golden-winged Laughingthrush
- Garrulax nuchalis - Chestnut-backed Laughingthrush
- Garrulax ocellatus - Spotted Laughingthrush
- Garrulax palliatus - Sunda Laughingthrush, Grey-and-brown Laughingbird
- Garrulax pectoralis - Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush
- Garrulax perspicillatus - Masked Laughingthrush
- Garrulax poecilorhynchus - Rusty Laughingthrush
- Garrulax ruficollis - [[Rufous-necked Laughingthrush
- Garrulax rufifrons - Rufous-fronted Laughingthrush
- Garrulax rufogularis - Rufous-chinned Laughingthrush
- Garrulax sannio - White-browed Laughingthrush
- Garrulax squamatus - Blue-winged Laughingthrush
- Garrulax strepitans - White-necked Laughingthrush
- Garrulax striatus - Striated Laughingthrush
- Garrulax subunicolor - Scaly Laughingthrush
- Garrulax sukatschewi - Sukatschev's Laughingthrush
- Garrulax variegatus - Variegated Laughingthrush
- Garrulax vassali - White-cheeked Laughingthrush
- Garrulax virgatus - Striped Laughingthrush
- Garrulax yersini - Collared Laughingthrushzh:噪鹛属