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Leiothrichidae
The laughingthrushes are a family, Leiothrichidae, of Old World passerine birds. The family contains 133 species and is divided into 16 genera. The species are diverse in size and coloration. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. The entire family used to be included in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. Characteristics They are small to medium-sized birds. They have strong legs, and many are quite terrestrial. They typically have generalised bills, similar to those of a thrush (bird), thrush. Most have predominantly brown plumage, with minimal difference between the sexes, but many more brightly coloured species also exist. This group is not strongly bird migration, migratory, and most species have short rounded wings, and a weak flight. They live in lightly wooded or scrubland environments, ranging from swamp to near-desert. They are primarily insectivore, insectivorous, although many will also take b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argya
''Argya'' is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. The species are distributed across Africa and southern Asia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds that forage in noisy groups. Members of this genus were formerly placed in the genera ''Turdoides'' and ''Garrulax''. Taxonomy Most of the species now placed in the genus ''Argya'' were previously assigned to the genus ''Turdoides''. Following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, ''Turdoides'' was split and species were moved to the resurrected genus ''Argya'' that had been erected by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1831. The name is from the Latin ''argutus'' meaning "noisy". Lesson did not specify a type species but this was designated as the Arabian babbler (''Argya squamiceps'') by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855. The following cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships between the species is based on a study by Alice Cibois and colla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrulax
''Garrulax'' is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. Taxonomy The genus ''Garrulax'' was erected by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1831. The type species was designated in 1961 as ''Garrulax rufifrons'' René Lesson, Lesson, the rufous-fronted laughingthrush. The genus previously included more species. Following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, ''Garrulax '' was split up and species were moved to the resurrected genera ''Ianthocincla'' and ''Pterorhinus''. ''Garrulax'' species are heavily traded as songbirds. A survey of eight bird markets in Indonesia, carried out in 2014–2015, found 615 laughingthrushes of nine species openly for sale. Much of the trade in these species in Indonesia is illegal and is pushing a number of these species towards extinction. The Sumatran laughingthrush, for example, is in serious decline due to ongoing and uncontrolled illegal trade in bird markets on the islands o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
