Black-throated laughingthrush
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Pterorhinus chinensis

The black-throated laughingthrush (Pterorhinus chinensis ) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. It occurs as an introduced species in Hong Kong. Based on a combination of strong morphological and genetic evidence, the subspecies on Hainan Island is treated as a distinct species by some authors, Swinhoe's laughingthrush (Garrulax monachus ).

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Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, mostly at submontane to montane elevations.

The black-throated laughingthrush was at one time placed in the genus Garrulax but following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Pterorhinus.

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References

1. Black-throated laughingthrush Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-throated_laughingthrush
2. Black-throated laughingthrush on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/103872142/113226699
3. Xeno-canto bird call - https://xeno-canto.org/635779

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