Sumatran laughingthrush

Sumatran laughingthrush
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Leiothrichidae
Genus: Garrulax
Species:
G. bicolor
Binomial name
Garrulax bicolor
Hartlaub, 1844

The Sumatran laughingthrush (Garrulax bicolor), also known as the black-and-white laughingthrush, is a member of the family Leiothrichidae. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the white-crested laughingthrush (G. leucolophus), but unlike that species the plumage of the Sumatran laughingthrush is blackish-brown and white.

It is endemic to highland forest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where it is threatened by habitat loss and capture for the domestic wildlife trade.[1][2] Despite being protected in Indonesia, illegal trade continues, often carried out openly in bird markets on Sumatra and Java.[3] As there appears to be an increase in international demand for this species, there have been calls for better international protection through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).[4]

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2016). "Garrulax bicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22734448A95085919. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22734448A95085919.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ Shepherd, Chris R.; Eaton, James A.; Chng, Serene C. L. (2016). "Nothing to laugh about – the ongoing illegal trade in laughingthrushes (Garrulax species) in the bird markets of Java, Indonesia". Bird Conservation International. 26 (4): 524–530. doi:10.1017/S0959270916000320. ISSN 0959-2709. S2CID 88722096.
  3. ^ Shepherd and Gomez (2018)
  4. ^ Heinrich, Sarah; Leupen, Boyd T. C.; Bruslund, Simon; Owen, Andrew; Shepherd, Chris R. (2021-01-01). "A case for better international protection of the Sumatran Laughingthrush (Garrulax bicolor)". Global Ecology and Conservation. 25: e01414. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01414. ISSN 2351-9894. S2CID 234330951.