Sumatran laughingthrush
Sumatran laughingthrush | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Leiothrichidae |
Genus: | Garrulax |
Species: | G. bicolor
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Binomial name | |
Garrulax bicolor Hartlaub, 1844
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The Sumatran laughingthrush (Garrulax bicolor), also known as the black-and-white laughingthrush, is a member of the family Leiothrichidae. It is endemic to highland forest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where it is threatened by habitat loss and capture for the domestic wildlife trade.[1][2] Despite being protected in Indonesia, illegal trade continues, often carried out openly in bird markets on Sumatra and Java.[3] It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the white-crested laughingthrush (G. leucolophus), but unlike that species the plumage of the Sumatran laughingthrush is blackish-brown and white.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b BirdLife International. (2016). "Garrulax bicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22734448A95085919. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22734448A95085919.en. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ Shepherd et al. (2016)
- ^ Shepherd and Gomez (2018)
- Collar, N. J. (2006). A partial revision of the Asian babblers (Timaliidae). Forktail 22: 85-112.
- Shepherd, C. R., Eaton, J. A. and Chng, S. C. L. (2016). Nothing to laugh about – the ongoing illegal trade in laughingthrushes (Garrulax species) in the bird markets of Java, Indonesia. Bird Conservation International 26(4): 524–530.
- Shepherd, C. R. and Gomez, L. (2018). Trade and conservation efforts involving the Sumatran Laughingthrush Garrulax bicolor in Indonesia. Journal of Indonesian Natural History 6 (2): 23-29.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List endangered species
- Garrulax
- Birds of Sumatra
- Endemic fauna of Sumatra
- Birds described in 1844
- Taxa named by Gustav Hartlaub