Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Leiothrichidae > Garrulax > Garrulax caerulatus

Garrulax caerulatus (Grey-sided Laughingthrush)

Synonyms: Pterorhinus caerulatus (homotypic); Pterorhinus caerulatus caerulatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The grey-sided laughingthrush (Garrulax caerulatus) is a bird species in the Leiothrichidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, and the Hawaiian Islands (where it was introduced). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Garrulax caerulatus

Infraspecies

Garrulax caerulatus caerulatus
Garrulax caerulatus kaurensis
Garrulax caerulatus latifrons
Garrulax caerulatus livingstoni
Garrulax caerulatus subcaerulatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
10
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.01034
EDGE Score: 1.38888
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  86 grams
Female Weight [1]  82 grams
Male Weight [1]  91 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  11 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  40 %
Clutch Size [3]  3

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ailaoshan Nature Reserve V 332544 Yunnan, China  
Buxa Tiger Reserve Sanctuary IV 23685 West Bengal, India  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0