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Garrulax merulinus (Spot-breasted Laughingthrush)

Wikipedia Abstract

The spot-breasted laughingthrush (Garrulax merulinus) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. It is found in south-west China, north-east India, Laos, Myanmar, north-west Thailand, and northern Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. The orange-breasted laughingthrush (S. annamensis) of south-central Vietnam was formerly regarded as a subspecies of this bird but is now often treated as a separate species.
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Infraspecies

Garrulax merulinus laoensis
Garrulax merulinus merulinus
Garrulax merulinus obscurus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.34609
EDGE Score: 1.46928
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  79 grams
Female Weight [1]  79 grams
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Doi Ang Khang Nature Reserve   Thailand      
Nam Et National Biodiversity Conservation Area VI 636243 Laos  
Nam Xam National Biodiversity Conservation Area VI 186111 Laos  
Phou Loey National Biodiversity Conservation Area VI 376767 Laos  
Pu Mat National Park IV 239739 Viet Nam  

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Bi Dup-Nui Ba Vietnam A1, A2, A3
Nam Xam Laos A1, A3
Phou Louey Laos A1, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam Yes

Prey / Diet

Ficus vasculosa[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Coracina macei (Large Cuckooshrike)1
Heterophasia picaoides (Long-tailed Sibia)1
Ixos mcclellandii (Mountain bulbul)1
Psilopogon pyrolophus (Fire-tufted Barbet)1
Pygathrix nemaeus (Douc langur)1

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
♦ 4"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
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