The blue-crowned laughingthrush or Courtois's laughingbird (Garrulax courtoisi) is species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. It is found only in China. Until recently, this critically endangered species was generally treated as a subspecies of the yellow-throated laughingthrush, but that species has a pale grey (not bluish) crown. This bird was erroneously listed as a species of least concern in the 2006 IUCN Red List. Actually, it seems close to extinction at least in the wild, and its status was thus corrected to critically endangered 2007 Red List issue.