Blue-crowned laughingthrush
| Blue-crowned laughingthrush | |
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| Taken at Cincinnati Zoo
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Leiothrichidae |
| Genus: | Pterorhinus |
| Species: | P. courtoisi
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| Binomial name | |
| Pterorhinus courtoisi | |
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Garrulax galbanus courtoisi | |
The blue-crowned laughingthrush or Courtois's laughingbird (Pterorhinus courtoisi) is a species of
critically endangered species was generally treated as a subspecies of the yellow-throated laughingthrush
, but that species has a pale grey (not bluish) crown.
The blue-crowned laughingthrush was formerly placed in the genus specific name was chosen to honour the French missionary to China Frédéric Courtois (1860–1928).[5]
The
Simao, Yunnan in 1956. More than 100 blue-crowned laughingthrushes are kept in zoos (where part of a captive breeding program) and private aviculture, but it is unclear what subspecies they belong to. A recent review failed to support the distinction of two separate subspecies, leading to simaoensis being treated as a synonym of the nominate in Handbook of the Birds of the World
.
This bird was erroneously listed as a species of least concern in the 2006
extinction at least in the wild, and its status was thus corrected to critically endangered in the 2007 Red List issue.[6][1]
See also
References
- ^ . Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "BirdLife International Species factsheet: Pterorhinus courtoisi". BirdLife International. 2023.
- S2CID 51883434.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2023). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List. 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ^ "2006-2007 Red List status changes". BirdLife International. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008.
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