White-throated Laughingthrush

Pterorhinus albogularis

Travels in noisy flocks through Himalayan scrub, filling the forest with raucous laughter-like calls.

Population: Not numerically quantified in accessible sources
Habitat: Subtropical/tropical moist montane forest (Wikipedia/BirdLife-derived), including forest edge and, per some regional accounts, high-altitude scrub/pastureland; roughly Himalayan-foothill latitudes
Fun fact: Long classified in the genus Garrulax (and briefly Ianthocincla), the White-throated Laughingthrush was reassigned to the resurrected genus Pterorhinus in 2018 following a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study of the laughingthrush family.
Range: Himalayan region and adjoining/disjunct areas: Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet (China), and Vietnam
Diet: Omnivorous with an invertivore-leaning niche — forages on/near the ground for invertebrates, supplemented with fruits and seeds
Size: 0.31 m
Lifespan: 10 years

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