Rufous-necked laughingthrush

Rufous-necked laughingthrush
From Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary in West Bengal, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Leiothrichidae
Genus:Garrulax
Species: G. ruficollis
Binomial name
Garrulax ruficollis
(Jardine & Selby, 1838)
Synonyms

Ianthocincla ruficollis

The rufous-necked laughingthrush (Garrulax ruficollis) is a bird species in the laughingthrush family, Leiothrichidae. It was formerly placed in the genus Dryonastes.[2] It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and Nepal, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Garrulax ruficollis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Baker, Edward Charles Stuart; Oates, Eugene William; Blandford, William Thomas (1922). The Fauna of British India: including Ceylon and Burma, Volume 2, Part 1. London, UK: Taylor and Francis. p. 139.


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