Sumatran laughingthrush

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Sumatran laughingthrush
Sumatran Laughingthrush RWD4.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Leiothrichidae
Genus: Garrulax
Species:
G. bicolor
Binomial name
Garrulax bicolor
Hartlaub, 1844

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[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Shepherd et al. (2016)
  3. ^ Shepherd and Gomez (2018)
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  • 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.
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