Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Malabar Whistling-Thrush
Myophonus horsfieldii
- epic
- 65 km/h
- Least Concern
Known to early naturalists as the Whistling Schoolboy, piping clear rambling tunes above the monsoon torrents of the Western Ghats. A brilliant blue forehead set into a body of deep indigo.
- Population
- endemic to peninsular India; locally common in monsoon hills
- Habitat
- rocky streams in evergreen forest of the Western Ghats and central Indian hills
- Diet
- insects, land snails, small frogs, crabs
- Size
- 0.25 m
- Wingspan
- 0.38 m
